Maxed out custom field - color list

[fritschle]

I have an issue and can't seem to find an answer to it on here.  I have a list of colors for a product.  When I went in to add a few more colors to my cart variant list, I clicked in the default box and went to add my few more colors.  I hit a limit.  I still have a few more to add. Is this a character limit, a max option limit?  How do I get around this?

Thanks.

[Maxim Pishnyak]

Could you post here a screen shot of your issue?

[fritschle]

Here you go.  Hopefully this will clear up what I was talking about.

The full list of items in the box is:
Select;Black;Brown;Burgundy;Carolina Blue;Cherry;Clear Coat;Crimson;Dark Mahogany;Ebony;Flame Tempered;Gold;Gray;Green;Hunter Green;Mahogany;Navy;Natural (Unfinished);Neon Green;Neon Orange;Neon Yellow;Orange;Pink;Purple;Red;Royal;Silver;White Wash;Yellow

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[Maxim Pishnyak]

Are you sure that this is the only method to work with cart variants? Check video tutorials in my signature.

Also you could check Product Options Custom Field Dropbox Plugin (from moderator of 3rd party forum section). This free plugin has much higher list limit.

[fritschle]

First off.  Why are you asking me a question related to your videos?  I don't have time to watch every video in your list.  If there is one that would help, let me know what it is and I'll gladly watch it.

Secondly.  I didn't know there was a limit.  I have a number of products already in that use this color list and I'd prefer not to have to completely change each product to the extent of removing and adding back 30+ custom fields. 

I would think that there should be a way to just change the limit on this field.

[balai]

Hi

The answer is yes there a limit that field has limit of 255 characters

You have 2 options:
1) Go to your database through your phpmyadmin and find the table 'virtuemart_customs ' there go to the table's structure and change the 'custom_value' field from char to varchar and its length from 255 to something higher e.g. 1024

2) To use this plugin: http://breakdesigns.net/extensions/customfields-for-all
It has no limit to the the number of values that can be used and also is suitable for color customfields
Afaik. this is going to be released the next days

[Maxim Pishnyak]

1) Go to your database through your phpmyadmin and find the table 'virtuemart_customs ' there go to the table's structure and change the 'custom_value' field from char to varchar and its length from 255 to something higher e.g. 1024

Next VM update could 'restore' original custom field limit.

[Kintaro Oe]

is there a reason to limit this field to only 255 chars?

[GJC Web Design]

probably not - it is just a figure - the smaller the figure the less usage of mysql resources -- 255 is a common figure chosen