Dataporting Error

RS8

Hi,
While Dataporting for Item master, i got an error as

"The Length of the source exceeds the size of the destination buffer"

i have increased field width of Description(250), Search Description(250), Description2(200). The size of the data is less comparing to the length of the field, but it gives error..

can anyone suggest a solution for this.

garak

you increased the 3 fields in the item table? hope, that you also does this for the other tables and functions that use the item description and the search description.

To your error message: Did you start the debugger?

RS8

yes, i have increased width for all related objects, is ther any particular buffer table, for this.. can any one mention the ID of the object..

Becka

Hi.. Activate Debbuger and then run Dataport. And you'll see where exactly the error occures.. Then go to the destination point and rechange size of the field.
Good Luck

ara3n

please do not increase the item description. Create new fields. You'll will be getting the error nonstop until you modify 100's of objects.

Savatage

Common Sence wrote:

dude :? , Description(250), Search Description(250), Description2(200)
Lesson 1.. think about how your changes will effect other areas of the system.

I have a dataport that takes the description and if it's too big it cuts & sizes it.
basically if your dataport imports the description into a variable (mydescription) in this example.
the copystr takes care of the rest.

first 30 characters go to the item description - chars 31 to 60 go to "description 2"

Item.Description := UPPERCASE(COPYSTR(mydescription, 1, 30));
Item."Description 2" := UPPERCASE(COPYSTR(mydescription,31,30));