How big is the comment field on a recording form?  This is the general comment field, not the taxon comments.  I've noticed recently, that the Sample Comment seems to be chopping off at around 15 characters.  So we get sample comments like 'proposed key sit' and 'woodland surve'.   I think this has only happened since we installed the last upgrade.

I originally thought it was data inputter error, but it is not limited to one person, and includes data entered by some extremely meticulous people, so I was surprised.  It only seems to occur with records entered using recording forms that we have set up, to allow us to enter lists of species for a site.  It doesn't happen on the standard data entry screen, where you are entering one record for one species - we are able to enter quite long comments.

We have been having problems with the Sample Comments.  Recorder seems to insist on adding in carriage returns, which are a complete nuisance.  It is not the data inputters, as we have made sure that they don't add carriage returns.  Also, the same comment seems to end up in the Sample Comment and the Taxon Comment - but the carriage returns are in different places.

Most irritating
Ellie

Eleanor Knott
Technical Co-ordinator
Devon Biodiversity Records Centre