Hello David,
As I was active in design of these changes, I'll chime in here. There was
not a specific reason on limiting the size of this field. Making a change
here and in future dspace versions would be welcome. Feel free to open a
ticket.
Best Regards,
Mark
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Robbins, Seth David <[email protected]
> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We’re on version 3.2 using the xmlui with a postgres database.
>
>
>
> We recently migrated from 5.2, and had done some work to alter our legacy
> custom embargo system to be more-or-less compatible with the newer
> policy-based embargo system (described in DS-108). We had some issues
> stemming from the fact that the description attribute in the resourcepolicy
> table is a varchar(100) while our legacy system stored the reason in an
> unlimited text field. While we rarely need more, limiting the reason to one
> hundred characters has caused some workflow issues for some of our users.
> Also, as it comes out of the box, the dspace master throws an uncaught
> PSQLException when a reason longer than 100 characters is entered during
> the submission access step (we’ve been avoiding the exception through form
> validation). We were considering logging a ticket to ask that the fields
> type be changed to ‘text’ or expanded to a wider varchar. As a preliminary
> to logging said ticket, I wanted to ask a few questions here:
>
>
>
> Does anyone know why the resourcepolicy.rpdescription field is limited to
> 100 characters?
>
> Are there any other bugs on the Jira that might be related to this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Seth Robbins
>
>
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