Document titles (255 limit)

Hi!
Is it possible to increase the number of characters that can be entered in to a document title within the Files & Documents section? Just now its limited to 255 but some titles we have are approx 300 characters. Due to the nature of these forms we can't shorten the titles.
Is it OK to make a change to the database field and if it is, what field needs to be changed to allow for longer Titles?

Thanks

Hi Owain,

Thank you for using our services.

I verified with our development team and it turns out that such direct change to the database is not recommended and in this case will not work, since after upgrade of the project the old number of symbols per column title will be reset. furthermore, we have some physical database limitations, so such serious change might lead to breaking changes. This would also produce a long url for the document item, since the url is based on the title of the document. I will recommend you to use the Description field to enter all additional information about the item, since its database type is varchar(Max) and you will have no limitation for the length of the record. Another idea, if you would like to display the long title on the front end  (with a Document download widget) would be to create a custom template for the widget, which will dipslay the values  of the Description field for each document, instead of their title. Will this suit your requirement? If so, I would be more than glad to assist you with the modification of the template. Just let me know.

Hi Jen,
Thanks for your reply.
The issue we have is its only for 2 or 3 documents which are also being displayed as part of a larger group of documents, so if I changed the template it would effect more documents than I require the change for.
Would it be possible to put an IF statement in to the template so for example, IF the title equals 'long title' then display the description as the title ELSE show the title as the title?

Owain.

Hello Owain,

Yes, this is possible. You can add description to the Download list template and set display:none to it, so that it won't be visible on the front end at first :