Patch function no longer working

[Justin_Moz]

Hi everyone,

As of this morning the patch function for one of my apps is no longer working.

(I've been using it successfully for the past 6 months)

I receive the following error: "Value must be at most 255 characters in length" on my submit button.

I hope they haven't limited the patch function to 255, as I have around 1000 required characters in mine.

Please help!

Thank You, 🙂

[Anonymous]

What column(s) are you Patching? It could be possible that the datatype for that column or columns has been changed to only accept 255 characters.

[Justin_Moz]

Hi Eric,

I'm patching somewhere around 30 columns. (Most characters would be 25 max)

It worked fine yesterday and the previous 6 months.

I don't feel that anyone changed the list settings overnight, as I'm the only one who manages it.

Also, It doesn't even specify a column. The error just points to the button itself.

[Justin_Moz · Accepted solution]

I still haven't been able to figure out why it quit working, but I did find a fix for it.

I just went through and set all text fields Maximum Length to 254 and everything went through.

I'll mark this post as completed. 🙂