Field Length Increment

RS8

Hi all,

I need to increase the field width of "Description" in Item Table to 50, using developer toolkit we can find where all these field gets affected. I want to know whether there is any tool available so that we can increase automatically using the tool or we have to increase manually.

ara3n

Don't Do it. Instead ask the client to upgrade to 5.0 or 2009 classic.

Search the forum, there are plenty of warnings on this subject.

RS8

its 2009 only..

ssingla

You have description and Description 2 having 30 char each.

Savatage

ssingla wrote:

You have description and Description 2 having 30 char each.

exactly what we use. you add them to the forms & reports you need.

item.Description+' '+item."Description 2" and your length is now 60

ara3n

If it's just Item table, then it's ok to increase it to 50. Almost all the description fields are 50 already.
It shouldn't be a large task. You can use Dev toolkit Where used option to find where it is referenced.

RS8

is there any tool available to change field width automatically through out Navision.

garak

no. but you know the text export function and you know wordpad or notepad.
And you know how carfull u must work.

David_Singleton

What can one say. Go for it.... here is my current view on this topic:

Increasing field lengths in Navision

One of the very first things that most new developers try to do when they start with Navision development is to increase the lengths of certain fields. Typically Item Description or Customer Name and Address fields.

Sumit

Have you tried with Item Card>Related Information>Extended Texts to capture your Descriptions ??