microsoft.public.crm :: Attribute's length from CRM 1.2 into CRM 3.0


	Attribute's length from CRM 1.2 into CRM 3.0 We created custom attributes in CRM 1.2 and now need to change the length (over 30 characters) but CRM isn't allowing us to do so. A message saying the length must be between 1 and 30. If a new attribute is created in CRM 3.0 the attribute can be over 100. Is there a way around this? Thanks, -- MTVgrp You cannot change the size of an attribute once it has created. You can make it smaller, but that does only change the maxlength of the textbox. No changes are made to the database. Therefore you cannot make it a larger value then the max value it was when creating it. The way to work with this is to: - add a new temporary custom attribute (same size as original field) - copy the data into that custom attribute - remove the original attribute - add a custom attribute with the same name as the original field, only the correct new size - copy the data from the temporary attribute into the new 'original' field - remove the temporary attribute. Hope this helps, -- Ronald Lemmen - MSCRM MVP Avanade Netherlands http://www.ronaldlemmen.com/ - Hide quoted text - "MTVgrp" wrote: > We created custom attributes in CRM 1.2 and now need to change the length > (over 30 characters) but CRM isn't allowing us to do so. A message saying the > length must be between 1 and 30. If a new attribute is created in CRM 3.0 the > attribute can be over 100. Is there a way around this? > Thanks, > -- > MTVgrp