How can I increase the title length for discussions?

Fifty

The current max length is 100. I want to increase this to something like 200. Can that be done?

I've tried $Configuration['Vanilla']['Title']['MaxLength'] = '200'; but that doesn't work for this.

Thanks in advance!

R_J

I guess it is defined by the length of the "Name" column of the table GDN_Discussion. But if you increase that value, it would be decreased whenever you run utility/structure (which you should do after an upgrade).

I know ways to reset that automatically but I guess it would trim all discussion titles to 100 characters every time...

If no one else comes up with a better solution, you can make the db change and then, everytime before you run utility/structure, you have to make sure that you edit /applications/vanilla/settings/structure.php and change the column definition in that file from 100 to 200 for the discussion table. But that feels kind of ugly... :-/

Fifty

I checked it and indeed it's a varchar(100) for the field Name. I'm a bit surprised by this, why shouldn't this default to 255 and be limited in the config file. Would be much better imho.

hgtonight

@R_J said:
I guess it is defined by the length of the "Name" column of the table GDN_Discussion. But if you increase that value, it would be decreased whenever you run utility/structure (which you should do after an upgrade).

I know ways to reset that automatically but I guess it would trim all discussion titles to 100 characters every time...

If no one else comes up with a better solution, you can make the db change and then, everytime before you run utility/structure, you have to make sure that you edit /applications/vanilla/settings/structure.php and change the column definition in that file from 100 to 200 for the discussion table. But that feels kind of ugly... :-/

If you write a plugin structure that makes the change, the field shouldn't be truncated to 100 and then increased, it should just stay where you want it. That is my experience, anyway.