Snippet name character limit in Version 2
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Glenn Elliott
We have some very long named snippets that version 2 just doesn't allow us to continue with our standard naming convention for snippets due to a character limit that does not appear to be an issue or limitation in the regular version of Document360
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harald dersch
Thiru 30 characters is definitely too restrictive. Since you cannot group snippets in a folder-like structure (especially if you want to use a lot of snippets), we need to add tags to the name to group them to organize them in the endless list of snippets somehow, e.g. PRODUCT_COMPONENT_INSTALLDIR_LINUX (which is already too long). BTW, why are dots not allowed in snippet names?
Glenn Elliott
harald dersch I have been asking this for ages with no progress on the topic. Before 2.0 came out snippets had no character limit so we came up with the standard that we have, now those are far too long, so the hundreds of snippets we had before 2.0 all have one naming convention, and after 2.0 our editors are just making whatever they can within the very small limit as there isnt a way for us to shorten our standard and it be easily understood.
Thiru Is there any movement on this? Has this been brought up with the developers? I have brought this up with our account manager multiple times but have never heard back other than "I'll pass this along"
Nibu Thomas
Is an issue for us as well. All of us have shifted back to the old UI for this reason
Thiru
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Thiru
Glenn Elliott we do emphathize from your perspective, however as a commoner name fields will be having only upto 30 characters, hence this approach. Also same is applicable with respect to names in glossary, variable as well.
Glenn Elliott
Thiru: When Version 2 go live will it break any of the snippets that already have character lengths over 30 characters?
As you know snippets cannot be renamed, so if this is going to break we will either need a way to rename them now and come up with a new naming convention or we will need to copy the info to a new snippet with a new shorter name, and do this for about 80-100 snippets!
Thiru
Glenn Elliott: Snippets will work fine if you have created in old portal and moved to new portal, because we do not allow the rename of snippets. However, this implementation is while moving forward snippets in the newer version.