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I'm trying to output the value from a column that is of type "text" in the database table. I'm seeing that the method call to $record->display() is only giving me the 1st 255 characters of the field.

I'm making the call within renderRow() within my delegate class. I wrote code to output the value within an HTML comment block, and I'm only getting the 1st 255 characters. My code looks something like this:

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   function renderRow ( &$record )
   {

      print("<!-- RAC notes ".$record->display(cp_notes)."-->");
      print("<!-- RAC notes ".$record->getValueAsString(cp_notes)."-->"); // this also only gives me the 1st 255 characters
   
   ...


I've tried getValueAsString(), and a few other functions on the Record class as well.

Where is this limit set? How can I indicate to give me the full value that is stored in the table?

In list view, for performance reasons, only the first 255 chars of each field is loaded into memory. If you require a field to always load the entire contents you can specify struct=1 for that field in the fields.ini file:

e.g.

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[myfield]
     struct=1



-Steve

Might want to check out this post too. It contains a little more information on the situation and some other solutions.

Exactly what i needed. Thanks for the quick response!