[Typo3-dev] name length of backend users

[Olivier Dobberkau]

in Beitrag mailman.504.1081800239.241.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de schrieb
Sven Wilhelm unter wilhelm at icecrash.com am 12.04.2004 22:03 Uhr:

> Hi,
> 
> I have the next problem with extending the max chars for be_username.
> 
> the following code fragment in typoconf/extTables.php
> 
> <?php
> 
> /* Set max username size to 40 characters */
> $GLOBALS['TCA']['be_users']['columns']['username']['config']['max'] = 40;
> $GLOBALS['TCA']['be_users']['columns']['username']['config']['size'] = 20;
> ?>
> 
> and the integration to localconf.php
> $typo_db_extTableDef_script = "extTables.php";
> 
> kills the complete user-interface for configuring the be-user.
> 
> What did I do wrong? Shouldn't this overwrite the values for the
> username-input-field?
> 
> Thanks and greetings
> 
> Sven
> 

Hi Sven.

Try this:

$TCA["be_groups"]["columns"]["title"]["config"]["size"] ="40";
$TCA["be_groups"]["columns"]["title"]["config"]["max"] ="40";

And do not forget to update the table.sql

CREATE TABLE be_groups (
    title varchar(40) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL
);

Olivier

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