Character Limits for Data Types

RE: Character Limits for Data Types

aldousemerson0331 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:15:16 GMT

You will also notice that in the data preview of the Record type, there are no missing characters, persisting bytes beyond the record field limit is also no problem as long as the database field can cater to it.Only when the data is queried that it gets truncated.

RE: Character Limits for Data Types

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:39:26 GMT

And, keep in mind, that these "characters" are actually bytes. So, if you want to store emojis only, you have to divide the number by 4 as each emoji takes 4 bytes to store.

RE: Character Limits for Data Types

Shubham Aware — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:20:58 GMT

These limits apply to synced records and any text exceeding these limits will be truncated.

You can find this limitation when you configure fields in a record (see below).

[quote userid="306856" url="~/discussions/f/new-to-appian/39681/character-limits-for-data-types"] I believe that for record types, there's a limitation for Extra Long Text, limited to only 3 fields within a record type that's allowed to have the Extra Long Text data type.[/quote]

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.3/about-data-sync.html#use-extra-long-text-fields-to-store-large-volumes-of-data