source/Plugins/AyaNova.Plugin.V8/V8.cs

@@ -324,11 +324,35 @@ namespace AyaNova.PlugIn.V8
 
 
         #region BIZ OBJECT Export methods
+        List<string> UsedNames = new List<string>();
+        long LUniqueName = 1;
+        private string GetUniqueName(string tryName) {
+           
+            string retName=tryName;
+            do
+            {
+                if (!UsedNames.Contains(retName))
+                {
+                    UsedNames.Add(retName);
+                    return retName;
+                }
+                retName = util.UniqueNameBuilder(tryName, LUniqueName++, 255);
+            } while (true);
+           
+        }
+
+        private void ResetUniqueNames()
+        {
+            LUniqueName = 1;
+            UsedNames.Clear();
+        }
 
         #region users
         private async System.Threading.Tasks.Task ExportUsers(ProgressForm progress)
         {
             if (!progress.KeepGoing) return;
+         UsedNames.clear
+
             //Step 1: export the CustomFields to FormCustom if applicable so that when doing individual items we can export their custom data too
             var ocf = ObjectHasCustomFieldDataToExport("User");
             bool ShouldExportCustom = ocf != null;

source/Plugins/AyaNova.Plugin.V8/util.cs

@@ -270,6 +270,24 @@ namespace AyaNova.PlugIn.V8
 
         #region Misc utils
 
+        //Used to ensure a unique name generated by appending -nnn is within length requirements by splitting and chopping part of text to keep name
+        public static string UniqueNameBuilder(string oldName, long appendValue, int maxLength)
+        {
+            //deadman switch
+            if (appendValue > int.MaxValue)
+            {
+                throw new System.OverflowException("UniqueNameBuilder: Unique name could not be generated for item \""+oldName+"\" after "+int.MaxValue.ToString()+" attempts");
+            }
+            var appendString = "-" + appendValue.ToString();
+            string ret = oldName + appendString;
+            var diff = maxLength - ret.Length;
+            if (diff < 0)
+            {
+                ret = oldName.Substring(0, Math.Abs(diff)) + appendString;
+            }
+            return ret;
+        }
+
         //used to set nonsense values from imported user login and password
         //just in case they are set active after import but never have their passwords set
         //so they can't be as easily hacked into
@@ -492,6 +510,9 @@ namespace AyaNova.PlugIn.V8
             public long Id { get; set; }
             public string Name { get; set; }
         }
+
+
+
         #endregion
 
     }//eoc