J-BusinessDirectory - Custom attributes characters limit

Hey all,

First of all sorry for my English, I'm Spanish :)

I have a problem with custom attrbutes... I have created several of them (textarea fields in this case), but those fields are limited to 250 characters in backend and frontend, and I need to show more. 

Any solution? Thanks in advance.

Hello Turi, i had same problem an got this answer from cmsjunkies: " If you want to increase the number of characters, you can modify the field size of the #__jbusinessdirectory_company_attributes table.". Additionally i was trying to set a custom attribute as texteditor like Tiny or JCE, but as this second was not possible, i did not try to increase character limit this way. Best regards

Hey Mac, thanks for the reply! :) I tried to search the solution in the forum but I did'nt find it. Yeah, I have done that, I have changed that field from VARCHAR (255) to TEXT. It was a primary key field, I had to convert it to a normal field to do it.

Regards.

I am having the same problem not being able to make custom textarea attribute fields handle more than 255 characters.  I went into the table to change it but I must be doing something wrong because after making the change, nothing changes.

Does anyone have a simple way of describing how to make this change?  I would think there would be a way of doing it from the field creation in the backend rather than having to go into the database to make the change.

Thank you for any assistance.