Serge van den Oever [Macaw]

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Hello,

I was facing the issue of the 255 characters limitation and now, it's gone :)

Thanks for the tips !

Emmanuel

Serge,

Do you know the 'parenttype' values for the other field types? I have been looking everywhere for a definitive list and cannot find one anywhere. Also, is it possible to create your own custom field type from a custom control instead of a standard sharepoint control?

thanks

Matt

hi,

i'm red_c and my proglem is:

"...full qualified class,assembly name"

What's this line. I serched in all internet, and don't understend this.

pleas somebody help my... this is importand for me

I'm not seeing the complete picture. I can get my control to be a multiline control, but it still only stores 255 characters in the sharepoint database.

What class do I derive my field from?

SPFieldMultiLineText doesn't fix the 255 problem. SPField doesn't solve the 255 problem either.

Hi Serge,

I am having the same problem as Charlie it is multiline but only takes 255 characters.

Am i missing something?

Did Serge and Charlie happen to solve the 255 character limitation? I'm chasing my tail here also.

Guys, you need to define it as a Note Type. e.g

<Field

ID="{}"

Type="Note"

Name="$Resources:names,fred;"

DisplayName="$Resources:names,fred;"

StaticName="$Resources:names,fred;"

Hidden="FALSE"

Required="FALSE"

Sealed="TRUE"

AllowDeletion="FALSE"

/>

this does not work.

this does not work.

I did all short of this but invain.

Did field type as as SPMultiLineText...

in XML, parent type is Note

finally SPField type is NoteField....

But still not able to resolve the issue.

Plz suggeest along with this what we have to do.

Thanx in advance,

arun

Hi,

I tried this, however the field still show only 255 characters.

But the Error message is hopefully gone.

Alex

I am not able to edit any custom fields in MS Word. I can only edit in the SharePoint environment. IS there any way I can edit those fields in MS Word?

A simple workaround for the issue using Object model

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A bit late maybe, but if someone finds this thread (like me) and wonders what the answer to the 255 chars problem is:

When converting a column from SPFieldText to SPFieldMultiLineText the column does not properly reflect the changes made in the code and in the XML. E.g. it is still not able to store more than 255 characters.

But I created a new DocLib, added my supposed not working custom column, and voilá: it suddenly worked and hold all the content.

Additionally I added a new Field property:

<Field Name="SQLType">ntext</Field>

into the XML definition like suggested by

panvega.wordpress.com/.../field-types

Hi.

This is actually described on MSDN:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../ms437580.aspx

For note:

Allows users to enter multiple lines of text. This field is not sortable or groupable. All text is defined to be straight ASCII characters without HTML markup. Anything that looks like HTML markup or a URL is simply quoted (for example, Server.HTMLEncode) to look like straight text. The control for editing this format is a simple TEXTAREA block. Use the NumLines attribute to specify the number of lines to display. Corresponds to the ntext SQL data type and represented by the SPFieldMultiLineText class.

For text:

Text   A single line of text entered in an edit box. This field is sortable and groupable. Use the MaxLength attribute to set a maximum number of characters allowed. Corresponds to the nvarchar SQL data type and represented by the SPFieldText class.

Now lookup the limits for ntext and nvarchar.