Can not Increase stringsize of Production Pool column in Dynamics-AX 4.0

Question

Tried increasing the production pool id size , but the property is grayed out, I am in the admin group, how ever I am not sure that this is either group rights or something else as I can modify many other properties.

Answer 1

The exteded data type ProdPoolId extends from PoolId which extends from SysGroup which has a string size of 10.

You cannot change the string size of ProdPoolIdor PoolId without breaking the inheritance.

This is probably what you should do for the PoolId, remove the SysGroup then set the string size to what you want. This will change PurchPoolId and SalesPoolId as well.

If you choose to change only ProdPoolId, go ahead, just ensure that there is no variable assignments from a ProdPoolId to a PoolId, as this would result in string truncation.

I would not recommend changing size of SysGroup as this will change thousands of fields.