About field sizes
If you are uploading or mapping data to fields that already exist in OpenAthens, you will want to make sure your data fits.
Bulk uploads will reject fields that are two large and mapped attributes will be truncated to fit. These are the maximum field sizes.
We've been around for a long time, so some of the fields are smaller than you might expect.
Accounts
Username: 20 (including prefix)
Password: 100
First name: 50
Last name: 50
Email: 200
Title: 100
Department: 100
Position: 50
Telephone fields: 20
Staff/student number: 20
Postal address: 200
Institution: 100
Custom attributes
Text attributes - 1024
Email attributes - 200
Choices - 255
Dates - must be between 1 Jan 1900 and 6 June 2079.
Permission sets
Description: 100
Name: 20
Notes: 200
Resources, inc. custom
Title:100
Description: 2000
URLs: 512