Character limit 4000

RE: Character limit 4000

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:23:46 GMT

Not as of now. I am sure Appian will raise this limitation in some future version.

RE: Character limit 4000

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:04:25 GMT

If you know about the requirement in advance, I'm guessing (but i haven't tried) that you could rig up some sort of "link table" solution for a given field that needs to (sometimes) store >4000 characters, which could be cobbled back together at runtime?

RE: Character limit 4000

pranav.walia — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:56:24 GMT

So is there no way around the character limit without disabling sync or using DSEs?

RE: Character limit 4000

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:53:34 GMT

DSEs are legacy and do not support sync. So, using DSE, you can query without limits, but loose the benefit of using records.

RE: Character limit 4000

pranav.walia — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:50:31 GMT

Is there any way to do it without disabling sync? I was thinking something related to data store entities.

RE: Character limit 4000

muhammadhaseebkhan — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:46:59 GMT

Mine solution was, I wrote a database procedure and used that procedure to call data, I am successful in retrieving more than 100,000 characters in this way.

RE: Character limit 4000

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:43:35 GMT

Please read this first: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.1/records-data-sync.html#when-to-use-data-sync

If your use case does not fit synced records, just disable sync and you can query as much data as you need. Even fields with 4001 characters or more.

RE: Character limit 4000

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:40:00 GMT

[quote userid="276123" url="~/discussions/f/data/30139/character-limit-4000/132606"]paging or chunking techniques[/quote]

What is that? Never heard of it in an Appian context !?!

RE: Character limit 4000

Shubham Aware — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:13:02 GMT

You can retrieve more than 4000 characters from a database in Appian using paging or chunking techniques to bypass the limit imposed by some database systems.

RE: Character limit 4000

pranav.walia — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:54:51 GMT

Could you explain that a bit? dealing with a similar issue. Thanks

RE: Character limit 4000

muhammadhaseebk1 — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:50:23 GMT

actually I got the solution, I implemented the stored procedure option and directly call it through the database. Now it is working perfectly fine.

RE: Character limit 4000

Peter Lewis — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:58:52 GMT

If you use a data store entity, you can return more than 4000 characters, but currently using synced records supports 4000 or fewer. Can you provide a bit more context about your use case? What information are you storing in that column? How do you plan to use it in your application?