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Many reference management software generate long citation keys which is usually more than 16 character. When my users import the bibtex files, the long citation keys are OK. but when they want to edit it the UI says that Citation Key cannot be longer than 16.
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Comment #1
Frank Steiner CreditAttribution: Frank Steiner commentedStrange. This has been fixed a while ago. Did you run update.php after installing, or did you do a fresh install?
Comment #2
masood_mj CreditAttribution: masood_mj commentedI've run update.php
In biblio table description the size of citekey field is 255:
Comment #3
rjerome CreditAttribution: rjerome commentedcheck the biblio_fields table...
and make sure the maxsize value is 255
Ron.
Comment #4
masood_mj CreditAttribution: masood_mj commentedBTW, are you sure that I must check biblio_keywords field. I had problem with cite_key!
Comment #5
rjerome CreditAttribution: rjerome commentedDoh! I've been working on too many things at the same time. Yes, I meant...
The rest holds true, check the maxsize value for biblio_citekey in the biblio_fields table.
Ron.
Comment #6
masood_mj CreditAttribution: masood_mj commentedYes, it was 16, I changed the maxsize value to 256 and the problem fixed.
Comment #7
masood_mj CreditAttribution: masood_mj commented