I've just fallen foul of the 9-digit rule, which I never previously knew about. It's a potentially crippling limitation.
My products are printed to order from computer files, whose filenames are four-digit numbers. Those are - necessarily - the basis of my Product References. But then I am incorporating material acquired from other publishers, whose file numbers conflict with mine, and have to be distinguished in the catalogue by alphabetic prefixes. Some products require suffixes, and for reasons too arcane to explain, some have to have a hyphen as their second glyph.
The 9-digit rule struck when I created duplicates. At that point whole swathes of my Product References ceased to work, and I have had to modify them to within an inch of their life. They no longer correspond with my file names, but are just about workable by somebody who concentrates.
If Sellerdeck could find it in its heart to accommodate a dozen characters life would be a lot simpler.
My products are printed to order from computer files, whose filenames are four-digit numbers. Those are - necessarily - the basis of my Product References. But then I am incorporating material acquired from other publishers, whose file numbers conflict with mine, and have to be distinguished in the catalogue by alphabetic prefixes. Some products require suffixes, and for reasons too arcane to explain, some have to have a hyphen as their second glyph.
The 9-digit rule struck when I created duplicates. At that point whole swathes of my Product References ceased to work, and I have had to modify them to within an inch of their life. They no longer correspond with my file names, but are just about workable by somebody who concentrates.
If Sellerdeck could find it in its heart to accommodate a dozen characters life would be a lot simpler.
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