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Increase Length of Field Names

Peter Jørgensen on 1/9/2020 1:17:23 PM
This is an extension ;-) to https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=7dce671b-7802-ea11-b862-0003ff68edfa (Increase Length of Application object Identifier to 50 Characters)

We need to add prefix or suffix to Field Names (& Object Names & Controls & Actions), which makes it very hard to make good Field Names with the current limitations.

Please increase it to at least 50 characters, as it will greatly improve the readability.
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Under Review
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Business Central Team (administrator)

Thank you for your feedback. Increasing field name length will have breaking downstream impact, and similar to object names there are some deeply rooted limits imposed by backend that require new way of handling object identifiers. This is high cost. We are considering adding it to our longer term roadmap though.

Best regards,
Business Central Team

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RE: Increase Length of Field Names

Al White on 6/16/2020 3:57:50 PM

Wish we'd had this from day one .. bit late now!?

(joking - we still want this WHENEVER it's deemed important enough to get done)

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RE: Increase Length of Field Names

Ron Ketterling on 4/27/2020 9:13:53 PM

Two other items with similar refrain.
BC Idea: Increase Length of Application object Identifier to 50 Characters (Currently 74 Votes)
BC Idea: Increase Length of Field Names (Currently 31 Votes)

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RE: Increase Length of Field Names

Ron Ketterling on 4/27/2020 9:12:54 PM

yes

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RE: Increase Length of Field Names

Ron Ketterling on 4/27/2020 9:12:27 PM

Yes, for some reason I can't vote on anything today.

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RE: Increase Length of Field Names

Hanne Jonassen on 1/10/2020 8:55:38 AM

Totally great suggestion. Microsoft you have to look into this, thank you.

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