# Mautic 5.1.0 | Why is Company Name a required field? And why is ttext length so short?

**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-5-1-0-why-is-company-name-a-required-field-and-why-is-ttext-length-so-short/33430
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [September 10, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-5-1-0-why-is-company-name-a-required-field-and-why-is-ttext-length-so-short/33430 "2024-09-10T15:41:39Z")
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### Author: ![andrewchildsza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/andrewchildsza/32/33_2.png) [@andrewchildsza](https://forum.mautic.org/u/andrewchildsza)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-5-1-0-why-is-company-name-a-required-field-and-why-is-ttext-length-so-short/33430/1 "2024-09-10T15:41:39Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: 5.1.10  
My PHP version is: 8.2  
My Database type and version is: MariaDB 11

**Your problem**  
My problem is:  
When attempting to import contacts via CSV there are two issues:

1. Company Name is a required field, why?
2. When importing Company Name, the character limit is too short. I am importing a bunch of contacts, none of whom’s Company Name is longer than 30 characters.

These errors are showing in the log:  
`mautic.CRITICAL: Uncaught PHP Exception Doctrine\ORM\ORMException: "An exception occurred while executing a query: SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column 'companyname' at row 1" at /var/www/mautic/mautic/app/bundles/LeadBundle/Model/ImportModel.php line 340 {"exception":"[object] (Doctrine\\ORM\\ORMException(code: 0): An exception occurred while executing a query: SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column 'companyname' at row 1 at /var/www/mautic/mautic/app/bundles/LeadBundle/Model/ImportModel.php:340)"} {"hostname":"ip-172-31-7-135","pid":129912}`

Steps I have tried to fix the problem:  
I am not sure what to try as the Company Name field is a built in, non editible field which is also a required field when importing.

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### Author: ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-5-1-0-why-is-company-name-a-required-field-and-why-is-ttext-length-so-short/33430/2 "2024-09-11T14:42:12Z")

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Hi, I think company name lenght can be set in Custom fields.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/8/8964e8a07e15dfd7921e0f2cd1193c8eddef1120.png)

I have 255, you might be able to resize via Mysql.

Joey

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### Author: ![andrewchildsza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/andrewchildsza/32/33_2.png) [@andrewchildsza](https://forum.mautic.org/u/andrewchildsza)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-5-1-0-why-is-company-name-a-required-field-and-why-is-ttext-length-so-short/33430/3 "2024-09-14T14:09:10Z")

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Thanks @joeyk

MariaDB [mautic]\> ALTER TABLE companies MODIFY COLUMN companyname VARCHAR(200);  
ERROR 1071 (42000): Specified key was too long; max key length is 3072 bytes  
MariaDB [mautic]\>

Hmmm.

GPT says this about the error:  
The error you’re seeing occurs because the `companyname` column is part of an index, and the combined key length (including this column and possibly others) exceeds the maximum allowed size (3072 bytes) when using `utf8mb4`.

Does this seem right to you?