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Limit the number of characters in a text field

When you use text option limit the maximum characters in the field.

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  • Ryan Sitch commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Without this ability it makes using Power Automate really difficult, as it can fail your response copy over to Sharepoint lists, with no ability to catch and handle this.

  • Ryan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Google Forms makes this so easy. We definitely need the ability to limit character counts in both short and long answer responses. Please!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I suspect a lot of companies use Forms as an simple data input method and use Sharepoint to then track the data post form submission. As the text questions on Forms are not character controlled, the Flow to write the data into a SP list will simply fail. This needs to be fixed.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would like the ability to set a custom character limit on individual text answers. My teams are turning to Survey Monkey because of this feature

  • JMG commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Essential! I had to use a different form program, since Forms does not have this capability.

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