Re: Initial layout

[Cabenoist1130@cs.com]

I think that something a char field with 150 will do fine.  If we find that it is to small then we can change it.  But we must do it now in design and not later.  Article names should never be more than two lines.  At most one. But for those rare cases we should allow two line.

linuxkb-list@seul.org wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:04:02PM -0500, Cabenoist1130@cs.com wrote:
> > The real reason for this email was to talk about whether or not char(30) on 
> the Article Name field would be long enough.  I think that we might want it 
> to be much longer.  I was thinking more along the lines of 100 to 150.  This 
> is just in case someone has a long title for an article.  We do not want to 
> cut it off.  Our search would hurt if we did that.  What do you think?
> 
> 30 probably is way too small, but we want to keep this size limited to keep
> the article names short and concise, IMHO.  Our other option is to use a text
> field so they can make it any size they want.  Do we want article names that
> are more than a line or two long?
> 
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