I am using Sitecore 9.1.1 and I am trying to override the value of Rainbow.SFS.SerializationFolderPathMaxLength in the foundation.serialization.settings.config. But sitecore is taking the value from Rainbow.config which is location in the root of the include folder. I thought the order of the config files should be first all the root inlude folder and than all the subfolders in the alphabetic order.
layers.config:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layers>
<layer name="Sitecore" includeFolder="/App_Config/Sitecore/">
<loadOrder>
<add path="Reporting" type="Folder" />
<add path="ContentSearch.Azure" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Xdb.Sql.Common" type="Folder" />
<add path="CMS.Core" type="Folder" />
<add path="AntiCSRFModule" type="Folder" />
<add path="Contact.Enrichment.Services.Client" type="Folder" />
<add path="ContentSearch" type="Folder" />
<add path="Buckets" type="Folder" />
<add path="DeviceDetection.Client" type="Folder" />
<add path="DetectionServices.Location" type="Folder" />
<add path="ItemWebApi" type="Folder" />
<add path="Owin" type="Folder" />
<add path="Owin.Authentication" type="Folder" />
<add path="Owin.Authentication.IdentityServer" type="Folder" />
<add path="Update" type="Folder" />
<add path="XConnect.Client.Configuration" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Xdb.MarketingAutomation.Operations" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Xdb.MarketingAutomation.Reporting" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Xdb.ReferenceData.Core" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Xdb.ReferenceData.Client" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Operations.xMgmt" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Segmentation.xMgmt" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Xdb.MarketingAutomation.Locators" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Xdb.ReferenceData.Service" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Xdb.ReferenceData.SqlServer" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Operations.Xdb.ReferenceData" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.xDB" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Tracking" type="Folder" />
<add path="Tracking.Web.RobotDetection" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Assets" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Xdb.MarketingAutomation.Tracking" type="Folder" />
<add path="Mvc" type="Folder" />
<add path="Tracking.Web.MVC" type="Folder" />
<add path="Services.Client" type="Folder" />
<add path="ExperienceContentManagement.Administration" type="Folder" />
<add path="Speak.Integration" type="Folder" />
<add path="Messaging" type="Folder" />
<add path="Processing.Tasks.Messaging.Xmgmt" type="Folder" />
<add path="SPEAK" type="Folder" />
<add path="Speak.Applications" type="Folder" />
<add path="LaunchPad" type="Folder" />
<add path="Experience Editor" type="Folder" />
<add path="ContentTagging" type="Folder" />
<add path="ListManagement" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Client" type="Folder" />
<add path="ContentTesting" type="Folder" />
<add path="ExperienceProfile" type="Folder" />
<add path="MVC.ExperienceEditor" type="Folder" />
<add path="ExperienceExplorer" type="Folder" />
<add path="MVC.DeviceSimulator" type="Folder" />
<add path="SPEAK.Components" type="Folder" />
<add path="ExperienceAnalytics" type="Folder" />
<add path="ExperienceForms" type="Folder" />
<add path="ExperienceForms" type="Folder" />
<add path="FederatedExperienceManager" type="Folder" />
<add path="UpdateCenter" type="Folder" />
<add path="CampaignCreator" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Automation.Client" type="Folder" />
<add path="Marketing.Automation.ActivityDescriptors.Client" type="Folder" />
<add path="EmailExperience" type="Folder" />
<add path="PathAnalyzer" type="Folder" />
</loadOrder>
</layer>
<layer name="Modules" includeFolder="/App_Config/Modules/" />
<layer name="Custom" includeFolder="/App_Config/Include/">
<loadOrder>
<add path="Foundation" type="Folder" />
<add path="Feature" type="Folder" />
<add path="Project" type="Folder" />
</loadOrder>
</layer>
<layer name="Environment" includeFolder="/App_Config/Environment/" />
</layers>
Location of the rainbow.config file:
App_Config\Include\Rainbow.config
Location and content of foundation.seriazation.settings.config:
App_Config\Include\Foundation\Foundation.Serialization.Settings.config
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/" xmlns:set="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/set/">
<sitecore>
<settings>
<!-- Rainbow - SERIALIZATION FOLDER PATH MAX LENGTH
In Windows, there is 248 characters limit on the lenght of file system paths. To avoid exceeding the maximum path length, Rainbow will loop
long paths back to the root. This setting specifies the maximum length of the path to the serialization root path,
which determines how long item paths can be before they are looped.
Important: The value of this setting must be the same on all Sitecore instances accessing the serialized data.
Important: When changing this value, you must reserialize all configurations!
Example: A value of "90" for this setting will mean that item paths longer than 150 characters will be shortened, since Sitecore
reserves 8 characters (and 248 - 8 - 90 = 150).
Default value: 90
-->
<setting name="Rainbow.SFS.SerializationFolderPathMaxLength" set:value="150" />
<setting name="Rainbow.SFS.MaxItemNameLengthBeforeTruncation" set:value="50" />
</settings>
</sitecore>
</configuration>
Sitecore is still showing the value of 110 from the rainbow.config instead of value from Foundation.serialization.settings.config.
