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Is there any way to adjust the max number of characters for topic titles?
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Ike
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Apr 25, 2015 - 3:23 pm

It would be nice for Andy to confirm this, but my guess would be that current topics which exceed the max length will be unaffected. I'm pretty sure the database column will still accept the same amount of input, it just limits you from the front end.

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Yellow Swordfish
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Apr 25, 2015 - 3:33 pm

Confirmed. That is absolutely correct.

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Apr 25, 2015 - 3:49 pm

I figured that much, thank you for the confirmation!

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Ike
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Apr 25, 2015 - 6:46 pm

No problem!

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May 11, 2015 - 4:48 pm

Yellow Swordfish said
Will be available in 5.5.6 

Did this make it into 5.5.6? If so, I'm having a hard time finding the option.

Don't see it under Content Settings or other general/global options, and as you can see we desperately need to limit topic title character count for some people... confused

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Ike
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May 11, 2015 - 5:17 pm

Hey Jim,

Yes it's in there..

Allow for the admin to set the maximum length of a topic title – $maxTitleLength – with max size of 200 added to the $addTopicForm array at the top of spForumView templates.

For reference

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May 11, 2015 - 5:33 pm

Ahh... sorry, I was expecting an SP Admin Option. Guess I need to edit another template for my child theme. Thanks for the pointer @ike - I'll report back here if I have any trouble implementing this.

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May 11, 2015 - 6:54 pm

Worked like a charm!

Thanks again.

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Mr Papa
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May 11, 2015 - 10:05 pm

you are welcome!

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Dec 22, 2015 - 3:24 am

Ike said
Hey Jim,

Yes it's in there..

Allow for the admin to set the maximum length of a topic title – $maxTitleLength – with max size of 200 added to the $addTopicForm array at the top of spForumView templates.

For reference

Ike, this would have to be in the child theme correct?

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