STFL internally restricted to a maximum length of 80 characters

This 80 character limit didn't exist on the V6 CMA, so all the company websites that were developed ( > 50) have many pages with references to static files with big file names, lots and lots of users created links pointing to these files.

The company recently upgraded to V8 and now we have 80 character limit for static files (that exists since V7), we can't change all the hardcoded links that were created by users (e.g., Hardcoded urls created with the Ephox editor) to point to new shorter file names and we can't let the users face failures like this:

2012-04-12 11:50:26,402 | ERROR | web.spring.BasicHandlerAdapter | | Failure occurred handling request [[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '5' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [com.vignette.ui.web.spring.BasicHandlerAdapter]
com.vignette.ui.core.UIException: An error occurred while creating file "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor.TXT". Make sure that the placement path doesn't contain any illegal character.
....

Caused by: com.vignette.as.client.exception.ApplicationException: 04/12/2012 11:50:26:402, Error 0 (Unknown), Message 026-120-0019: 04/12/2012 11:50:26:402, Error 12 (CMSException), Message 000-000-0001: Object name of this type is internally restricted to a maximum length of 80 characters. name=Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor.TXT, length=83

We don't want to present problems to our user experience, do you know if there's a way to avoid this 80 characters limit?

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Mario_DAnna

The restriction affects the name of the file, not its placement path. This means that the actual name of the file on the disk can be whatever you want: what is to be changed is the name the file is given when shown in the VCM console. I can't see why you can't shorten the name itself to make it fit into the 80 characters.

Mario

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STFL internally restricted to a maximum length of 80 characters

Posted by marcelo.rodrigues@prudential.com (Rodrigues Costa, Marcelo) On 04-12-2012 12:59

We don't want to present problems to our user experience, do you know if there's a way to avoid this 80 characters limit?

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Marcelo_Rodrigues_Costa

Hi Mario,

So, are you saying that I can change the file name from:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor.TXT

To:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tem.TXT

Upload it to VCM (to bypass the <80 char rule) and then rename the file again inside the 'file_source' directory? Even with a strong feeling that this would break things, I decided to give it a try, here's the error I get when I try to use the 'View Item' option after renaming the file:

2012-04-12 13:32:33,326 | ERROR | gnette.cms.server.bm.FileOpsBm | 18804 | 007-001-0290: file "72081dfc221a6310VgnVCM1000003e898930STFL" not found [[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '2' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [com.vignette.cms.server.bm.FileOpsBm]
com.vignette.cms.client.common.CMSException: 04/12/2012 13:32:33:326, Error 15 (Download file not found), Message 007-001-0290: file "72081dfc221a6310VgnVCM1000003e898930STFL" not found

Looks like VCM no longer has a relation to that static file. Other than that, what about all the static files that were uploaded on the V6 environment? There's a huge migration going on and they are moving these files through the API and they're facing the same failure.

Kind regards,

Mukul_Bishnoi

You do not have to shorten the actual file name, it can remain as is. What Mario is trying to say is - you have to edit the “Name” attribute of the static file instance within WEM. Which you cannot do while you are uploading the file using WEM console, one option is to write a pre-persistence listener, which will check the length of all static file names being uploaded, if the length comes out to be more than 80, trim the name and then proceed with upload. This is not going to affect your existing links as this is not modifying the placement path, just the name within WEM.

Regards,

Mukul

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Posted bymarcelo.rodrigues@prudential.com (Rodrigues Costa, Marcelo) On 04-12-2012 13:48

Hi Mario,

So, are you saying that I can change the file name from:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor.TXT

To:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tem.TXT

2012-04-12 13:32:33,326 | ERROR | gnette.cms.server.bm.FileOpsBm | 18804 | 007-001-0290: file "72081dfc221a6310VgnVCM1000003e898930STFL" not found [[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '2' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [com.vignette.cms.server.bm.FileOpsBm]
com.vignette.cms.client.common.CMSException: 04/12/2012 13:32:33:326, Error 15 (Download fil! e not found), Message 007-001-0290: file "72081dfc221a6310VgnVCM1000003e898930STFL" not found

Kind regards,

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Selvi_Thangavel

We can't do that as well. We already havesome logic in custom listener where we match up the filename to do someprocessing...

Thanks,
Selvi

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Posted by mbishnoi@opentext.com(Bishnoi, Mukul) On 04-12-2012 16:08

You do not have to shortenthe actual file name, it can remain as is. What Mario is trying to sayis - you have to edit the “Name” attribute of the static file instancewithin WEM. Which you cannot do while you are uploading the file usingWEM console, one option is to write a pre-persistence listener, which willcheck the length of all static file names being uploaded, if the lengthcomes out to be more than 80, trim the name and then proceed with upload.This is not going to affect your existing links as this is not modifyingthe placement path, just the name within WEM.

Regards,

Mukul

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Posted by marcelo.rodrigues@prudential.com(Rodrigues Costa, Marcelo) On 04-12-2012 13:48

Hi Mario,

So, are you saying that I can change the file name from:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit,sed do eiusmod tempor.TXT

To:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit,sed do eiusmod tem.TXT

Upload it to VCM (to bypass the <80 char rule) and thenrename the file again inside the 'file_source' directory? Even with a strongfeeling that this would break things, I decided to give it a try, here'sthe error I get when I try to use the 'View Item' option after renamingthe file:

2012-04-12 13:32:33,326 | ERROR | gnette.cms.server.bm.FileOpsBm| 18804 | 007-001-0290: file "72081dfc221a6310VgnVCM1000003e898930STFL"not found [[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '2' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default(self-tuning)'] [com.vignette.cms.server.bm.FileOpsBm]
com.vignette.cms.client.common.CMSException: 04/12/2012 13:32:33:326, Error15 (Download fil! e not found), Message 007-001-0290: file "72081dfc221a6310VgnVCM1000003e898930STFL"not found

Looks like VCM no longer has a relation to that staticfile. Other than that, what about all the static files that were uploadedon the V6 environment? There's a huge migration going on and they are movingthese files through the API and they're facing the same failure.

Kind regards,

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