Text Box Interface Tool max limit

[cplewis90]

Hello Alteryx Community,

I am working on an app that will take a text input of numerous values of stores separated by a few different delimiters (each delimiter represents a grouping). I have done some searching on the community and the tool mastery index, but I do not see if there is a limit to what can be entered into a text box by a user. I am estimating I could have roughly 40,000 characters that would need entering into one text box. Is this possible and if not what is the character limit?

[CharlieS]

I have not found a limit to the Text Box input tool. I imagine it acts similar to the Text Input tool. The only limit I've found is that very large Text input tools can cause issues for Designer to become unstable.

[cplewis90]

Thanks @CharlieS for the info on the text input tool! I didn't know it had a limit! Learning something new everyday.

I am more curious about the text box tool under the interface pane in designer. See the below:

[CharlieS]

Haha yeah I started editing my above post when I realized I read the wrong tool. Like I said, I haven't encountered a limit other than Designer stability. 

[Claje · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Since I agree that understanding the character limits of a text box is a great use case, and I also couldn't find any documentation, I did some quick testing using a few different thresholds.  While the below limit is not exact, I found that I was able to use a Multi-line Text Input tool to successfully import 31,950 "a" characters, and could not successfully import 32,000 "a" characters.

This looks to be approximately the maximum value of a 16-bit integer, so I'm guessing there's some overall space limitation around this level.

[cplewis90]

Hello @Claje 

I just started doing the same thing, but in a non-multiline option and got a similar result. I got 32759 characters to be accepted, but nothing more. I am assuming that is very close to the limitation. Thank you!