What is the supported length of the name/description of Pre-tax Deduction Elements, and why?
AnswerPre-tax deduction reporting names should be no longer than 12 characters long.The reason why the name was allowed to be longer in the past, but not now is because of added functionality- deferred compensation pre-tax deductions can now have employer match and after tax components. That necessitates the creation of additional database items with appendages to the element name, but the length of a databaseitem has to be less than 80 characters – hence the current restriction on deferred comp pre-tax deduction names. Any existing elements with longer names are not affected because you can’t change them to have after tax/employer match components.
