RE: [SYSTEM21] Expand characters in part/item field

[<peterj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you need to use 30 characters INTERNALLY or just eg to print on some
customer documentation? If the latter I'd suggest you use the alternate
reference field (which does accommodate 30), keep a <15 internal part
number, and modify only the output programs.

I was involved once with a customer who required more than 15 everywhere,
the recompilation of the database was the simpler part - accommodating 30 on
each screen on print was the big effort, but as I recall we managed to
compromise by limiting the item description to 20 characters, so where the
code and description are displayed together (probably most occurrences) the
total space remained about the same. Also 10's of thousands of parts only
had only a few hundred different descriptions (many were simply eg
"filter"), so these could be encoded and recovered from a new table - this
also simplified multi-lingual descriptions.

Surely if this had been an initial requirement, you should not have
implemented System 21, so why has this suddenly become an issue?

Peter Joel
Saltway Ltd

-----Original Message-----
From: system21-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:system21-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Alan Kincer
Sent: 02 June 2003 17:18
To: jbausers-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SYSTEM21] Expand characters in part/item field


Currently we are limited to 15 characters in the part field. We have a need
to expand this to 30 characters. Can anyone tell me the issues and pitfalls
associated with this?

Thank you!

Alan



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