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Maximum number of characters possible in O/E questions
I couldn't find the answer to this question in the help.
What is the maximum number of characters in an O/E question?
Are other specify's the same?
If I leave the maximum field blank, are the number of characters unlimited?
Thanks.
lighthouse-9
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May 5, 2020
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Paul Moon
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I know the largest number you can put in that field is 9999. I'll be curious to see if that can be exceeded.
What if I leave it blank? Does that make it unlimited? I'm interested to know that answer. Thanks Jay.
Paul I was going to experiment with this a bit as I'd never considered leaving the maximum field blank. Well it appears that it will not allow it to be left blank or at 0. It requires a minimum of 1 and will allow no more than 4 digits. Therefore I do believe the maximum allowed is 9999. I would think if you needed more than that you could stack open ended questions with a note 'If maximum space is used, continue comments here' or something similar. Just a thought. I even tried 'text area' type question in a free format and it did give me a warning that the max must be less than 10000. However, a 'text box' type question allowed the max to be 9 digits but then the formatting seems to be limited to 1 line which would be an issue. Curious that it would allow a larger max than a text area though.
Thanks for the testing and the information Jay.
That's valuable.
Much appreciated.
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