About extra "Profile" info...

...continued from the discussion in the "Spam" thread after John C added the "URL", "Bio" and "Products/SysInfo" fields, here:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1930765#1930765

"Edit Profile should now show places for a URL, a brief (1 line or so) bio, and a list of products you use."

I know what follows is merely an academic observation, but it's still kind of indicative of the attention to detail paid by the Jive programmers. Thi post is meant to act as a heads-up for users editing their profiles, and as something that should be passed along to our good pals on the Jive team.

I was concerned about the "...brief (1 line or so)..." limit for the "Bio" field. I wanted to test the character limit. I entered the following string, but WITHOUT the spaces (for a total of 521 characters):

a123456789 b1234567890 c123456789 d123456789 e123456789 f123456789 g123456789 h123456789 i123456789 j123456789 k123456789 l123456789 m123456789 n123456789 o123456789 p123456789 q123456789 r123456789 s123456789 t123456789 u123456789 v123456789 w123456789 x123456789 y123456789 z123456789 A123456789 B123456789 C123456789 D123456789 E123456789 F123456789 G123456789 H123456789 I123456789 J123456789 K123456789 L123456789 M123456789 N123456789 O123456789 P123456789 Q123456789 R123456789 S123456789 T123456789 U123456789 V123456789 W123456789 X123456789 Y123456789 Z123456789

This is what appeared when after I saved my profiles prefs. All characters were present, but they extended far beyond the area meant to contain the Bio:

Then, I replaced the non-breaking string with the set of characters pasted in bold, above. This is a total of 572 characters. This is how it appears after saving my Profile preferences:

It's good to know that Bio information doesn't need to be limited to "...1 line or so...". I haven't tested to see what the upper-character limit is for the "Bio" field (I'm sure there is one), but it seems to me that 572+ should suffice, at least for most people.