Repository Field Update Refresh Timing

[jyoung]

I have a work field in the repository that was initially defined as a ALPHA 10.
Come to find out that field needed to be bigger so I expanded it 20.

This field is not part of a file, it is merely a "work" field that I use to move profile data from the client to the server.

After I checked in the field update, I noticed, through trace output and the like, that the data of the field is still getting truncated to 10.
At some point however, it started using the full length of the field.

When does run-time "refresh" its view of the data dictionary? Is there any way to force it do so?

Edit
It occurs to me now that this may be compilation issue and not a run-time timing issue. Its altogether possible that I did not "check-in" all the objects that used that field and forced them to get re-compiled. I vaguely recall something being mentioned along those lines when I took the elearning stuff sometime ago.

[Stewart Marshall]

Hi Joe

This is definitely a compile issue.

Changes to field length, decimals, attributes etc., all require the objects using them be recompiled.

Regards