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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>&lt;spinal tap&gt;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>The username field in the table goes all the way to 255 characters,
so that&#8217;s your limit for moodle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>&lt;/spinal tap&gt;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:blue'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>RonM<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 June 2009 15:22<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Xerte discussion list'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Username Field Too Short<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That&#8217;s a good point.
The moodle integration may fall foul of this in some cases too e.g. some
accounts may have their email address as their username and in some case that
can be even longer than 50 chars.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><a name="_MailEndCompose"></a><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Hopkins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 June 2009 15:10<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Username Field Too Short<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>The size of the field is 20, so I
would suggest matching the max length to at least that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>The user in question had a
username formatted &#8220;firstname.lastname&#8221;, I am not sure how common
that is, but it is conceivable that would go over 20 characters in some
instances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>I would be inclined to dump the
max length parameter all together unless there is a good reason for having it,
or increase it to a level you know will not cause a problem, 50 chars for
example.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Jeremy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 June 2009 14:19<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Username Field Too Short</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yes, or course, thanks. What
do you suggest the limit shout be?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy
Hopkins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Username Field Too Short<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hello, <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I just modified the username field in Xerte
after one of our users could not log in as his username was over the maximum
permitted length.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Strangely the max length was shorter than the
display width of the field, I am not sure if there was a reason for doing this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If not, perhaps the distributed version of
Xerte could be updated with this change?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks, Jeremy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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