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Category Description Truncated

posts: 758 United States

Hello folks, I am stumped, I have looked in the documentation and in forums and now luck. We using Tiki 14.0 with Utopias theme.
I cannot complete a category description without it getting truncated. Please see http://woodworkerswiki.org/tiki-browse_categories.php?parentId=10&deep=off&type= and you'll see the category desc is truncated. I have re entered the entire text and saved many time, I have tried FF, IE, and Chrome and I get the same results, any help is greatly appreciated!

The category description for Industrial Revolution is as follows: Create your research projects in this category about machinery that was used during the industrial revolution time period from the mid 1700's through the mid 1800's. Please look for sub - categories of the different types of machinery to create your........

The end of the description should read "machinery to create your project within."

posts: 4656 Japan

Hi John,

The limiting factor is the database field used to store category descriptions, which is varchar(250). You can change the length - 250 - by accessing the table with phpmyadmin. It's the tiki_categories table, and the description column. Just increase 250 to whatever figure is needed to accomodate your descriptions.

-- Gary

posts: 758 United States
You are awesome, thank you Gary!

posts: 758 United States

Tiki 15 svn
php 5.6
innoDB
Theme: Tikinewt
Theme Option: Shadow
The Patriot Woodwiki

Revisiting this subject, I have changed the default from 250 to 1000.  Yet I am still experiencing the same issue, I have cleared cache, site cache, browser cache, and reloaded that category, yet I am still seeing truncated description text, any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!


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