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Hello,

I am trying to increase the length of the description field in Nav (under item card) but I do know that the description on item card gets used/mapped to other tables too. Does someone know all the tables that it reflects it to as I'll have to change the character length there too.

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DAnny3211 11,397 on at

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Hi

certainly reflected in the tables:

37,39,113,115,111,121,123,125,32

there may be others

check my answer if it helped you, thanks

DAniele

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SV1 100 on at

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This helps, Thank you Daniele. I guess it would also reflect the firm planned orders/production orders etc

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Hi Daniele,

I increased the field length on tables but I'm still getting an error when trying to add an item with a longer description to a PO. Would you know why?

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YUN ZHU 95,748 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, personally, I do not recommend modifying the standard field length, which will cause trouble in future upgrades. And the existing fields are connected to a lot of different places. This can cause a lot of errors that you can't imagine.
You should add a new field.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

ZHU

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Alexander Ermakov 28,096 on at

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I would also not recommend to extend the length of the standard field. In the end, you can of course identify all the other tables and fields where it is populated (but it might be a painful process and risky), but there are also report layouts (like invoice) which might be messed, as well as the search by name option will degrade in performance quite soon. As others have said, it will also cause future updates and upgrades difficulties.

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DAnny3211 11,397 on at

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Hi

as my colleagues above say

it is not advisable to change the lengths of standard fields

so I advise you to create new fields and manage those in your flows

DANiele

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