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Name Truncation Issue

LossMentality

Junior Member

Name Truncation Issue

Monday, November 26th 2012, 5:18am

Is there a maximum length that user defined names (e.g. sensor names) can have in aquasuite? I've got a few sensors with some longer names and I'm able to enter those names and see them show up every where in Aquasuite (i.e. in charts or gauges etc.). But every so often, I'll look at one of those names, and see it's been truncated.

I'm not sure when it happens, but I've definitely seen it happen after closing and reopening AS. It seems like the software handles these longer names just fine until it tries to save the names or something.

The truncation seems to happen after ~21 characters. I've seen it across several different sensor types, too.

I wasn't able to find other reports of this on the forum.... anyone else have this? Thanks in advance!

cc01

Full Member

Monday, November 26th 2012, 7:21am

I have also seen it but I cannot recall how many characters I used before the truncation occurred. I use quite lengthy names for some things and I noticed once that some of my fans had the ends of their names missing, which I then revised to shorter names and all was well.

BorisTheSpider

Full Member

Monday, November 26th 2012, 10:30am

Confirmed, I've seen it too. I never figured out exactly how many characters are supported, I just shortened stuff when it happened.

LossMentality

Junior Member

Monday, November 26th 2012, 7:25pm

Thanks Boris and CC. I'm not 100% sure on the 21 char limit but that's how many were left after truncation on the several occasions I bothered to count.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "LossMentality" (Nov 26th 2012, 7:26pm)

cc01

Full Member

Tuesday, November 27th 2012, 9:08am

Experimented a little...

The magic number is indeed 21.

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