What are the character limits for standard contact data fields?

What are the character limits for standard contact data fields?

The answer is dependent on field type. See character limits by field type below.

  • Standard text fields can hold up to 50 characters (with some exceptions, for example, phone numbers are limited to 15).
  • Text 1- Text 11 can hold up to 200 characters.
  • Comment fields can hold up to 1000 characters.
  • Unicode fields can hold up to 4000 characters.
  • Long text fields can hold up to 120,022+ (possibly an unlimited number) of characters. There are only 2 long text fields available in the standard contact fields table (Additional_ and Comment_).

Some field types (like Number fields) are restrictive about the format of the data stored there (number fields need to be whole numbers, not decimals).

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