item name size in PSD files.

[Conley, Steve]

IF YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH CHANGE TO NON-PSB LEAVE AS REGULAR SFD AND NAME
WILL NOT TRUNCATE


STEVE 

VICTORIA'S SECRET STORES
COLUMBUS, OHIO

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> Sent:	Friday, July 17, 1998 12:19 PM
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> Subject:	item name size in PSD files.
> 
> G'day all 
>  
> We have been using portable subfiles to transfer data definitions from one
> 
> environment to another and found that element names are truncated to 20 
> characters in the resulting PSD files.  As we have many items up to 25 
> characters in length this is causing a problem.  We only discovered this
> by 
> accident when two element entries resulted in the same name causing the
> QTP 
> load program to abort with an invalid dictionary error.  
>  
> Does anyone know how to override this name length restriction?  Our 
> alternative is to manually edit every PSD.  We have about 700 of these! 
>  
>  
> Robert Edis (Blue) 
> Technical Consultant 
> Michigan, USA 
> (VAX/VMS, ORACLE Rdb, PowerHouse 4GL)
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