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3 years 3 months ago #226678 by boshra.m
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Hello,

I was wondering, if I do not enter a value in the maximum characters input setting for the multiple short text question, will it be unlimited? If not, would anyone know how I would go about making it unlimited?

I have searched the manuals and the forums about this but could not find an answer. 

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3 years 3 months ago #226679 by Joffm
Replied by Joffm on topic Multiple Short Text - Maximum Characters
Hi,
it is obvious that you can't make it "unlimited".
Keep in mind that there is a database where you have to store it.
In the database (MySQL) these question types are implemnted as data type "TEXT".  (64kB)

You may read here about it.
[url] dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/storage-...storage-reqs-strings [/url]

You also have to consider that Unicode characters may use more than 1 byte
[url] dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode.html [/url]

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3 years 3 months ago #226690 by DenisChenu
Replied by DenisChenu on topic Multiple Short Text - Maximum Characters
You can ask (maybe) to LimeSurey GMBH support to set it to long text

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