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field accepting more characters than maximum length

amtg
Kilo Contributor

‎04-28-2017 01:28 AM

Hi,

I have a field on a form of type 'string' . I want to increase the character limit of the field from 40 to 300. I went to the dictionary of the field and gave 300 in the Max Length field of this variable's dictionary. After doing this, it is still accepting characters more than 300 and also saving the record with characters more than 300. can anyone tell me how to fix that and why is it happening?

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anurag92
Kilo Sage

‎04-28-2017 01:36 AM

Yes, this is a known problem. If your field max length is >255, it can accept n number of characters. As a workaround, you can limit it to 255, or make use of Client Scripts/BRs to limit the size programatically. Refer this link for more



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