Text input tool cell character limit

[atcodedog05]

Hi Alteryx Community 😀,

I was asked a question recently and wasn't able to find an answer so sharing it here to see if anyone has an answer to this 🙂

"What is the max character limit the Text input tool cell can take?"

There is no info on it in the help doc https://help.alteryx.com/20221/designer/text-input-tool . If there is any answer would love to hear from you people 🙂

[Adrian_T]

Hey @atcodedog05, I see the limit was bumped up to 10,000  characters back in 2020, see the implemented Idea ticket here. 🙂

[atcodedog05]

Thank you soo much @Adrian_T 🙂

Cheers and have a nice day!

[Felipe_Ribeir0 · Accepted solution]

Humm, i was able to test it with a cell of 32000 and it worked. Probably could go higher

Fould some people going above 10000 with the text box tool too (that i assume that is similar to the text input): https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Text-Box-Interface-Tool-max-limit/td-p...

For general string fields (dont know if it apply to text box input tool) i found this one limiting it to 2gb of data https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/String-size-limitations/td-p/45283#:~:....

[atcodedog05]

Hi @Felipe_Ribeir0 

Believe it or not, I ran a similar experiment yesterday. And I got the limit as 32767. I think it's the limit but I would love to be proved wrong. Experiment and let me know your findings 🙂

Thank you soo much 🙂

Cheers and have a nice day!

[Felipe_Ribeir0]

😎

@atcodedog05 

Maybe it is somehow related to the machine capabilities/operational system/Alteryx version? 

[atcodedog05]

Hi @Felipe_Ribeir0 

Interesting 😁, please share me the workflow and also which Alteryx version are you using?

[Felipe_Ribeir0]

Yes!

[atcodedog05]

Hi @Felipe_Ribeir0 

Interesting, how are you pasting data into the text input tool.

I am doing Select a cell> Copy all records with headers> paste it to the text input tool.

[atcodedog05]

Hi @Felipe_Ribeir0 

Just add 3 or 4 more zeros to the number and see if affects the length keep adding zeros till it breaks. Clearly whatever you are doing same is not working for me 😅