Topic ID length

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John Johann
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Topic ID length

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Hi,
I notice that long topic IDs get automatically truncated -- is there a way to set the length?
I'm setting up a new project and received the structure (chapter titles) as an indented text from a colleague. Several of the titles are, shall we say, descriptive.
When I paste the text into the multiple new topics window, and create the topics, the long names get truncated to topic ids of ca. 34 characters.

I can manually lengthen the topic ids, but I'd prefer to not have to. Any tips?
Thanks
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Re: Topic ID length

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Hi John,

Very long IDs are really not recommended, and a descriptive ID written by you is almost always better than whatever is created automatically, particularly from long "descriptive" titles. We really don't want to encourage filenames like that. Thus the character limit. 8)
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Tim (EC Software Documentation & User Support)

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