Change field length in dictionary

[Devi priyanka]

I am experiencing an issue when trying to update the length of the 'Tech Remarks' field from 2000 to 250 characters. The field is a string type, but when i am trying to change the value, the value is cleared, and an error message is thrown. could you please advise an correct procedure to update the field length.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Devi priyanka 

it's correct OOB platform message.

There are records in your table in which that field contains data which is more than 100 characters, so system is not allowing you to do that and update the length as 100 or 250.

But why to change the field length?

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Devi priyanka 

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Devi priyanka 

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[J Siva]

Hi @Devi priyanka 
It's not advisable to reduce the field length.
As you can see in the error message, there are some records where that particular field value length is more than 250. That's why it's throwing the platform error messgae.

Regards,
Siva