EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[mc12345678]

can you tell me what the longest field length is for the "v_products_description_1" field is?

Thank you kindly in advance!

From what I have been able to gather, there is nothing about EP4 that specifically limits the length of the field. The field is a text field in the database, the applicable editor may have some limitations or maybe a function that is called, but EP4 doesn't truncate the field length of the description, regardless of the language.

[chadderuski]

From what I have been able to gather, there is nothing about EP4 that specifically limits the length of the field. The field is a text field in the database, the applicable editor may have some limitations or maybe a function that is called, but EP4 doesn't truncate the field length of the description, regardless of the language.

Hi All! No, I did not fall off the planet

EP4 does NOT limit field lengths, but it does check the database to see what the size of the fields are and gives you a warning/error message if you go over that length.

I believe that non-critical data gives a warning, but something like a category name generate an error and does not add that record. This is necessary especially when creating category names, or even manufacturer names. With out it, a name the exceeds the length in the database would be truncated and added multiple times (there would be not match when comparing values). Other versions of EP don't do this unless they've fixed it recently.

Multi-byte encoded languages are a bit harder to work with, but should function correctly.

-chadd