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Ken_Koellner
Text vs. Text Area Long
I have a field that's simple text but I might want to go longer than 255. I take it he only alternative is Text Area Long.
Are there any repercussions or limitations I may run into in using Text Area Long intead of Text?
I noticed I must make it at least two lines in page layouts (although when I picked 2, I still got 3).
Is there anything else I might run into?
Any programmatic differences when working with values in Apex?
Here's a few long text field limitations that come to mind, although there are probably more.
* You can't make the field an external ID
* You can't use them as search filter fields
* Can't use them as search criteria in reports or list views
* When searching using Advanced Search, only the first 2048 characters are searched
* There are some limits to the # of characters that will display in a list or report
I think they can be used as report filters now