On 9/14/07, Matthew Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We have many people running into the current 255 character limit of > the "About your blog" field without realizing it until after > submission. An RFE was generated to display the current count > dynamically and captured here. > > http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1519 > > I have some simple JavaScript to handle this. It is currently in > housed in the WeblogConfig.jsp and I am happy to submit a patch when > I am done with the rest of ROL-1519, save for the DB change that > would be needed to up the 255 limit. Couple of comments. > > 1. Is there a way to pull the current character limit from the model? > I have 255 hardcoded in there at the moment. > > 2. I still need to externalize the strings for the label.
I think 255 characters is too short for an About this blog field. To up the limit in the schema we will have to figure out how to write alter table code that will work with the various databases we support and add that to the 400-to-410 migration script. We'll probably have to write a macro that generates the appropriate SQL for each database. - Dave - Dave
