13457: surveyIDs longer than 6 digits - LimeSurvey bugs and feature requests

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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

13457	Feature requests	Other	public	2018-03-07 17:37	2018-03-13 16:56

Reporter	tbart	Assigned To
Priority	none	Severity	feature
Status	new	Resolution	open

Summary	13457: surveyIDs longer than 6 digits
Description	I have a special case here: I want to match survey IDs to IDs of another application. I'd need a few more digits in the survey ID. The DB has int(11) for surveyID, so I took a bold step, edited the maxlength="6" property in the input when cloning a survey, set it to 10, entered a longer surveyID and everything seems to work out flawlessly. Is this safe? Will I run into problems further on? Why is the input restricted to 6 digits when the backend seems to be designed for more? If it is just this single location of code that restricts the input to 6 digits - may I ask to increase it to the limit the backend is capable of, so others can benefit as well? There's no real downside to this - people can choose shorter IDs any time.
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tbart 2018-03-08 17:33 reporter ~46950	The PDF queXML produces cuts down the surveyID to 6 digits, so ootb this does not seem to be supported. I am not enough into the actual PDF generation step to see whether it would be possible to change that behavior..

tbart 2018-03-13 16:56 reporter ~47035	It can be changed in application/libraries/admin/quexmlpdf.php ! protected $idLength = 6;

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2018-03-07 17:37	tbart	New Issue
2018-03-08 17:33	tbart	Note Added: 46950
2018-03-13 16:56	tbart	Note Added: 47035