Exact Character limit for few variable types

[tulasi8]

Hi Community ,

Can you please let me know the exact character limit for these variable types? @Ankur Bawiskar 

       1 . Multi Line Text 

        2. Wide Single Line Text

Regards,

Tulasi.

[Dr Atul G- LNG]

Hi @tulasi8 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/servicenow-ai-platform-forum/character-limit-on-multi-line-text...

https://servicenowguru.com/client-scripts-scripting/maximum-length-large-string-fields-servicenowcom...

https://www.servicenow.com/community/itsm-blog/max-character-length-catalog-variables-suggestion-fie...

[Tanushree Maiti]

Hi @tulasi8 

In ServiceNow platform configuration ,the maximum character limits are

4,000 characters for Multi Line Text and

255 characters Single Line Text  variable

"

As per documentation, for 254 characters or less, the string field is a single-line text field. Anything 255 characters or above appears as a multi-line text box.

Please note that this is expected behavior.

By default, multi-line text fields have a 4,000-character limit. To help users see how many characters remain before they reach the limit, you can enable the glide.ui.textarea.character_counter property."

Multi-line text fields exceeding character limit

Max Character Length: Catalog variables, Suggestion Fields & Choice Lists

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@tulasi8 

I don't think any limit for Multi Line Text but it can be 4000

For wide single line text you can set the max length validation using onChange client script

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[tulasi8]

@Ankur Bawiskar for wide single text is there any limit by default ?