About field sizes and supported characters
The interface and the software behind it all support UTF-8, which generally means all the million plus characters used around the world - if you can type it on your keyboard you should be ok.
This character set applies to almost all attribute data:
Yes: email addresses, custom attribute names, targets, data, and any other customisable field - e.g. email templates.
No: username (English characters only, sorry)
If you are uploading or mapping data to fields that already exist in OpenAthens, you will want to make sure your data fits. The targets and names are fixed for the core attributes.
Bulk uploads will reject fields that are too large and mapped attributes will be truncated to fit.
We've been around for a long time, so some of the fields are smaller than you might expect. These are the maximum field sizes.
Core attributes
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, including custom
Title:100
Description: 2000
URLs: 512