I have noticed that I get ODBC errors if I attempt to insert character strings longer than the database field length.

I can restrict the character lengths by using the maxlength attribute in the data entry forms, but would it not be better to have an attribute of sqlvar that restricts the length of strings being passed to the ODBC adapter?

You can use Python's string slicing to effectively limit the length of a variable. For example instead of: <dtml-sqlvar myfield type=nb> try writing: <dtml-sqlvar "myfield[:20]" type=nb> to take only the first 20 characters. -- Duncan Booth duncan@dales.rmplc.co.uk int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3" "\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure? http://dales.rmplc.co.uk/Duncan