What is the maximum number of characters for a Lotus Notes text field?

Question

What is the maximum number of characters for a Lotus Notes text field? In Lotus Notes clients, I am encountering a 32K error.

Answer 1

The default max length for a text field is 254 characters. The maximum length allowed for a text field is 15,360 characters.

Answer 2

It is a bit more complicated than that - depending on the version you can increase the size of text fields to 32K by setting the .isSummary property of the NotesItem for the field using the Lotusscript QuerySave event, however this will mean you can't display data from the field in views.

Answer 3

Depending on what you are trying to do, you can use a Notes rich-text field, which does not have the 32k size restriction. So, you could use this "rich-text" field to store text only - this is essentially accomplishing the setting of the .isSummary attribute to false, but does not require you to add any script code. Rich-text fields cannot be rendered in views.