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vijaya kudupudivijaya kudupudi 

getting 253 characters only in comments field in a salesforce report ?

Hi All,

I have a Comments field of Type LongTextArea(Size 256). when i use this field in reports i am getting 253 characters and dots(..) . I am not even getting 254 characters. I just want to display full text from comments field. Any body can help me to solve this problem.
Best Answer chosen by vijaya kudupudi
Dayakar.DDayakar.D
Hi Vijaya,

That is salesforce limitation.Only the first 254 characters in a rich text area or a long text area are displayed in a report. If you download the report, the entire field is available.
please find below link for more information.
https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000170897&type=1
This issue also posted in Ideas, please find below link.
https://success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000BpOYAA0

BestRegards,
Dayakar.D