I'm building a module that puts a template for an email in the Module Settings.

I now see that this limits the template to 2000 characters (the limit in the TabModuleSettings table).

So ... is there a recommended way around this?

Hi Joe,

1) Make your own table

2) Save settings like "TemplateCount" = number of 2000 byte chunks of the template.  Then "Template1" bytes 0 to 1999, "Template2" bytes 2000 to 3999 , etc..

Thanks,

Mike

I think if the template is larger than 2000 characters, then you don’t want to put it in the template.

Dnn loops through the properties of the module object and does a replace on it. This is done for each module in each page, do you really want to put such a burden on the host server?

Additional options

• break off the static portion of the template and try to get the character count as small as possible.
• hard code the static portion of the template and insert it using variables.
• add a property at the end of the module object  to store the major chuck of the template and add that filed to the template.

The idea here is to prevent dnn from looping though a large chcuk of text doing string replace (matching).