Actually ofbiz does not use the DB as a reference but uses the
entitymodel and fieldtypexxxxxxxx.xml file.
Depending on whether a widget or FTL the rendering code define the
length of field from the entity model, Field type. The absolute length
is defined from the fieldtypexxxxxxxx.xml. where the xxxxx is the db
you will notice the Entity model does not define an absolute length. The
fieldtypexxxxxxxx.xml is were the absolute lenght is defined.
There should never be a field length longer that the db ability if the
fieldtypexxxxxxxx field length is defined properly.
now there maybe a bug in the rendering code for UI's but I don't know
where exactly that might be.
guo weizhan sent the following on 2/22/2008 7:27 AM:
> I see the length defined in entitymodel of course.
> I think the display-entity work like this: select *** from Content
> where key-field-name
> = value
> the value get from field name="contentId" does it ? if yes, why it can work
> when name="contentName" in other db, a little confused...
>
> 2008/2/22, BJ Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> where do you see a length defined here?
>>
>> guo weizhan sent the following on 2/21/2008 6:41 PM:
>>
>>> I think this is the bug, it should be change to this:
>>>
>>> <field name="contentId" widget-style="tabletext">
>>> <display-entity entity-name="Content"
>>> description="${contentName}" key-field-name="contentId">
>>> <sub-hyperlink
>> target="editContent?contentId=${contentId}"
>>> description="[${contentId}]" link-style="buttontext"/>
>>> </display-entity>
>>> </field>
>>>
>>> does it??
>>>
>>> 2008/2/22, guo weizhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>> Thanks, I have read the old post before, but I need ofbiz support the
>> db2
>>>> database, and db2 is the important db in market, it can make ofbiz be
>>>> adopted widely.
>>>>
>>>> 2008/2/21, Walter Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>>> guo weizhan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I test the content id with CDI1201 , it's fine
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the error occur only when the length of contentname more than 20
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> DB2 is not a perferred database for OFBiz... AFAICT
>>>>> Search the archives of this mailling list. I seem to remember some
>>>>> workarounds in the past year
>>>>> http://www.nabble.com/OFBiz---User-f2743.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>
