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Mike, I was actually including the spaces in the full string, which the database would do, so it would be > 41 in your initial example.  Also, I agree with you regarding how QuickBooks takes in this field, and breaks it out in the first and last name fields.  I still feel the issue with the 6's being dropped was because of the ...

The same thing is happening when using the "New Activity" link when launching the pop-up from a row in the Contacts tab/grid of a Customer page.

Mike, Great, glad I could help! - Adam

"when I press the save button and reload the sales order in Method, the Other1 & Other2 fields actually remain, however the SO Date2 and SO Name2 get wiped out.  If this is what you are referring to, I believe this is again related to the original item actually getting dropped behind the scenes, so the references ...

Hi Adam, Thank you for the link, that was exactly what I needed to know. Best, MikeH

Hi Ben, Thank you for looking into this, however I believe you counted the characters wrong. There are 6 numbers repeated 6 times and 5 spaces (blank chars). That gives (6x6) + 5 = 41 characters. The problem is not due to the character limit because you will see the same behavior if you use a customer name "111111 222222 333333" or ...

We're encountering issues when creating subaccounts. A user is able to create one, but after that, the process no longer works. Pressing the button results in our custom new account screen popping up, but it's blank and hangs. None of the fields end up showing. Logging out and logging back in seems to help, but only for another single ...

Ben, thanks. I'll experiment with the zip option. Though it would be really nice if method supported a TXT option. - Steve

MikeH, After some further testing, I have pin-pointed the issue here, however this is not a bug in Method.  For your test example with the numbers, you are entering in values > 41 characters in length, the issue is that the Contacts field in the Customer table can only hold values <=41 characters.  You can confirm this ...

Hi JPW, Method_Adam actually just reminded me of another Knowledge Base article we have on this subject.  Here is the link, this article explains how to delete many records at a time, in a similar fashion to my example above with the "Make Inactive" Button, however it explains it in more much more detail.  This might be useful ...