My favorite solution: whenever a task caption is created or edited to be over 255 characters, immediately truncate it and save the excess in the task note. Notify the user that this happened with something like a toast message
On Mar 17, 2016, "Andrey Tkachuk (MLO)" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello Nathan, Roberto, Dwight, > >Yes you are right. This is the restriction of MLO Cloud sync service. >The >table which contains tasks does contain a limit for the task title for >255 >characters. > >Answering your questions: > >>1) If I revert to MLO Android v1 will this go back? I'm guessing >most >probably not. This seems to be an issue of the cloud synch. But I >just >thought I'd ask. >no, it is truncated on cloud side and synced back to any MLO client. > > >>2) Is this going to be fixed? And when? >To keep cloud performance we do need to set a limit for the task title. >We >set it to 255 chars. All what is longer than 255 chars should be placed >to >notes by user. > >>3) When did this change get introduced? That way I could know what >archive copy to refer to if I come across an old task and I want to >"restore" it with a full copy. >It was introduced in the initial cloud version back in 2010 year and it >was >never changed. I do not remember that anyone for 6 years mentioned that >it >is a problem to have such limitation. > >Maybe we need to rework the clients and copy the long task titles to >the >notes just before the sync. Or probably better to set the limit for the > >control not allowing 255+ chars in the task title to avoid the issue. > > >Thanks, >Andrey. > >On Monday, March 14, 2016 at 12:01:23 PM UTC+2, Nathan G wrote: >> >> I'm sending MLO support an email now. I've lost a lot of text I >think. >> This is kind of equivalent to my data being partially, but >significantly, >> corrupted. This is not an insignificant failure. >> >> I would like to know: >> >> 1) If I revert to MLO Android v1 will this go back? I'm guessing >most >> probably not. This seems to be an issue of the cloud synch. But I >just >> thought I'd ask. >> >> 2) Is this going to be fixed? And when? >> >> 3) When did this change get introduced? That way I could know what >> archive copy to refer to if I come across an old task and I want to >> "restore" it with a full copy. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Nathan >> >> >> >> >> On Friday, March 4, 2016 at 11:42:25 PM UTC, Dwight Arthur wrote: >>> >>> Nothing to report, yet. >>> >>> On Mar 4, 2016, Nathan G <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Any news on this? This is a significant concern to me. I am >losing my >>>> text. My words are there, and then... they are gone. >>>> >>>> Nathan >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 2:55:46 AM UTC, Dwight Arthur wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Posted to the Developers on Jira as MLOBETA-374 >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at >https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/28c79dbc-877e-4505-a483-865d367925f0%40googlegroups.com > >>>> ><https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/28c79dbc-877e-4505-a483-865d367925f0%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- Sent with *K-@ Mail >>> ><https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onegravity.k10.pro2>* > >>> - the evolution of emailing. >>> >> -- Sent with K-@ Mail - the evolution of emailing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/90f2892d-28cc-4b2d-9728-3efff9c5240c%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
