[TYPO3-bugs] RFC: increase length for titles of be_users, be_groups, fe_users, and fe_groups

Martin Kutschker Martin.Kutschker at n0spam-blackbox.net
Thu Nov 30 09:50:49 CET 2006


Ingo Renner schrieb:
> This is a SVN patch request
> 
> Description:
> 
> Title for be_users, be_groups, fe_users, and fe_groups are limited to 20 
> chars, this makes it impossible to give descriptive names especially 
> groups.
> 
> Solution: increase the length of the according DB fields
> Patch for the
> 
> /t3lib/sttdb/tables.sql
> /t3lib/sttdb/tbl_be.php
> /typo3/sysext/cms/ext_tables.sql
> /typo3/sysext/cms/tbl_cms.php
> 
> are attached.

I don't know if there are reasons to restrict the lengths to 20. I think it 
makes sense to increacse to 30 or 50 to allow for family names and some 
prefix/suffix.

Better then using long "ids" are title fields. Those fields should be shown 
in the selectors.

Masi


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