Character Limitations in custom fields? | Community
Skip to main content
March 7, 2017
Solved

Character Limitations in custom fields?

  • March 7, 2017
  • 2 replies
  • 3566 views

We are wanting to create a custom field in marketo to contain a promotion code a contact has redeemed. Is anyone aware of any character limitations in custom fields?

This post is no longer active and is closed to new replies. Need help? Start a new post to ask your question.
Best answer by James_Chung

You should be fine.  You shouldn't come anywhere close to reaching the character limit.

Most fields don’t max out at number of characters, but instead at amount of bytes. Because of that, we’re unable to provide a definitive character limit for each field. The two exceptions however are Text Area (3200 characters) and String (255 characters).

Source:

Custom Field Type Glossary - Marketo Docs - Product Docs

2 replies

James_Chung
James_ChungAccepted solution
New Participant
March 8, 2017

You should be fine.  You shouldn't come anywhere close to reaching the character limit.

Most fields don’t max out at number of characters, but instead at amount of bytes. Because of that, we’re unable to provide a definitive character limit for each field. The two exceptions however are Text Area (3200 characters) and String (255 characters).

Source:

Custom Field Type Glossary - Marketo Docs - Product Docs

March 8, 2017

thanks James!

SanfordWhiteman
New Participant
March 8, 2017

Please move the thread to Products and someone will answer it there. "Community" is for website feedback, not product support -- and yes, this is confusing!