Using Valentina Studio - and complaints

[william humphrey]

That Table Editor method deletes all the data in that field.


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Sergey Pashkov <
sergey_pashkov at valentina-db.com> wrote:

> Hello, Bill,
> I was able to reproduce this issue in Property Inspector in the latest
> build.
>
> But for now you can use a Table Editor to change a type, and it is better
> way, which gives more control over process.
> Right Click on the table -> Design Table… , open a tab Fields.
> There you can change a type and input desired length.
>
> Best regards,
> Sergey Pashkov
>
>
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:01 PM, william humphrey <bill at bluewatermaritime.com>
> wrote:
>
> Using latest version form iTunes store (which is the only versions that
> don't require that serial number you have to hunt for on website).
>
> I tried to change the type of a field from "short" to varchar and found
> out that it defaults to a varchar which has only 2 characters thus
> truncating all the existing data in that field to just two characters.
>
> I also tried using the features of database diagrams which allows you to
> choose the number of characters (in this case I wanted 8) before
> committing.  Interesting this changes all the data (9,000 records) to "42".
>
> I would report this in Mantis but I have not had the time over the last
> two months to get the serial number required to use the latest beta and
> test it (as maybe this problem does not occur in latest beta). I will when
> I have a free weekend (I remember it took me nearly an hour to find it on
> the website last time and I can't remember what I did).
>
> I wish it was easier to get that serial number for testing. I would also
> like to report some problems I found with switching from diagram view back
> to columns view.
>
> I think that it is important that Valentina Studio is bug free as it (in
> my opinion) is the face of Valentina for new users and I want Valentina to
> succeed!
>
> Bill
>
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