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Hiya! New user here, so forgive me if I’m being silly!

I’d like to limit character input into forms to a certain length (let’s just say 32 characters for argument’s sake). The proposed form is for clients who want to submit product descriptions to an app (hence the need for character limits). Now I could go through and check each one individually, but it’d be great if I could just set a limit warning instead. I read this previous post: https://community.airtable.com/t/limit-characters-in-long-text-field/7353 but it still doesn’t solve the client-facing form issue.

One thought I had was another app integration? I haven’t checked if this is possible yet, although I suspect I’ll fall into the same character limit problems.

Has anyone got a suggestion or a neat way to make this happen? I’d be much obliged! If you don’t think it’s possible, please leave a comment saying so - it’d be great to know either way!

You can’t set this up with Airtable’s legacy form views, but you can set this up with Airtable’s new forms.

You can get to the new forms by clicking on “Forms” at the top of the screen, and the new forms will allow you to set a character limit for both long text fields and single line text fields.

If you click on a text field, you will see the option to set the character limit in the right margin.

See screenshot below for how you would set this up.

Alternatively, you can also do this with Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable, which also offers hundreds of additional form features that you can’t get in Airtable — such as creating new linked records with a form, updating Airtable records with a form, or generating PDF files with a form submission.

Hope this helps!

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