Increasing field width in Account Module

[john.phortse]

I read through the wiki and was told I would change the field with by changing the metadata. I want to increase the default field length in the Account Module to '50'. I edit /modules/Accounts/metadata/editviewdefs.php and changed the following:

$viewdefs['Accounts']['EditView'] = array(
'templateMeta' => array(
'form' => array('buttons'=>array('SAVE', 'CANCEL')),
'maxColumns' => '2',
'widths' => array(
array('label' => '10', 'field' => '50'),
array('label' => '10', 'field' => '50'),
),
I then do a Quick Repair and Rebuild, and edit an Account. All fields still appear in the default '30' width.

I also attempted to make the same changes in /custom/modules/Accounts/metadata/editviewdefs.php and the results were the same.

Any help would be appreciated.

John

SugarCRM CE version 5.2.0i
Apache version 2.2.11 (Unix)
PHP version 5.2.9
MySQL version 5.0.77-community
Operating system Linux

[SugarDev.net]

you are changing the percentages of the columns in which the labels and fields are displayed.

look in the wiki for Vardefs, there is where you should change this!