• LUTi
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  • Registered: 01/07/2010
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Topic: Account / account group names are too short

I find the limit of account / account group / account class names (45 characters) too limited for my needs.

I can understand that longer strings would affect the whole display (forms), but I need to see complete lines at least in in reports.

Could it be possible to have longer strings available (varchar 255), and just a recommendation to keep the length below 45? We can still limit the sizes of fields where those strings are displayed at the end...

Or, better - to have 2 names for each account / account group / account class:
- one to be used (in the web interface) with "custom" account / account group / account class names, and
- another with "official" names (to be used in reports)

The benefit of the second solution would also be that I can have more descriptive account names (meaning something to me), but can switch to "official" names (if an inspector wants to see it...). Or, even more improved - that those "custom" names are per user (with some defaults, to simplify the managenent, if there are a lot of users with more or less the same wishes...) - so we can put different custom names for different users (anyone sees account / account group names according to his/her preferences...).

  • LUTi
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Re: Account / account group names are too short

It seems it isn't too complicated to make account / account types names longer. I've changed in MySQL:
`0_chart_master`.`account_name` to VARCHAR 255
`0_chart_types`.`name` to VARCHAR 255

and modifications to 2 files, as in attachment.

Up to now, everything seems to work quite OK. I'd appreciate any feedbacks.