Text Area Field

With the Text Area Field type, Users can enter multiple lines of text. You can optionally define the following properties:

  • Field Properties

    • Field Label — (mandatory) is displayed on the left from the field on view, edit, and new record pages.

    • View Header — (optional) is used in headers of views and reports. If not specified, the Field Label is used.

    • View Width — (optional) is used to set width (in pixels or %) of columns in views and reports. If not specified, the browser calculates the width of columns automatically.

    • Length — The maximum allowed length (number of characters)

      Note: The maximum allowed length cannot exceed 100 characters. However this limitation does not apply to external databases. See Using external tables as Platform objects for more information.

    • Default Height — Default height of HTML text area (you can override this default as a Page-level property using the Page Editor).

    • Default Width — Default width of HTML text area (you can override this default as a Page-level property using the Page Editor).

    • Use Rich Text (HTML) Editor — Enable a Rich Text Editor so users can enter text as formatted HTML.

  • Advanced Field Properties — For more information, see Advanced field properties.

  • Integration Name — The integration name is used to reference this field via merge fields or with Platform APIs.

  • Field-Level Help — The Field-Level Help box allows you to define help text for the field that will appear in a popup when the user clicks the help icon next to the field.

Note:

  • The length of text stored in Text Area cannot exceed 80,000 characters.
  • Text Area field type does not support filtering.