TYPO3 - Mask | How to extend the max length of links?

Question

In a project I am working on I need to save rather long links in MASK. According to the database Mask saves links ad tinytext with a max length of 255 characters. Is it possible to somehow extend this max length?

Simply manipulating the database or mask.json helps "short" term but it will be overwritten bei mask every time a change is made.

Answer 1

I would set mask as requirement in your site_package and override the field in a custom ext_tables.sql.

For the next project, I strongly suggest to look into extension mask_export to avoid dynamic generation by mask