Long text fields

bilgi1 · 2025-03-13T13:25:34.117Z

hi bubblers,
i have a list of text field with might be have 250 300 items in it.
also some of them might be 25 pages long pdf’s ocr result. so even 200 this items can be that long which means in a list of text field more than 500 page long pdf ocr result might exsist.
is there any problem with it?
at some apps im seeing if text is too long it generates a txt file or someting is it important for my scenerio?
also what would be my hard limits?

bilgi1 · 2025-03-13T13:35:19.095Z

it says 10 million character is the hard limit. which means 6500 pages of pdf min.
but is this someting i can scale my app with? so i can even have 350 pages longs pdf 200 times in a list of text field. which is still okey? i m asking it for long string api calls i will use oftenly

ademiguel · 2025-03-13T15:55:05.944Z

The 10M characters hard limit is for single text fields, according to Bubble’s official docs. I am not sure if that hard limit is shared between text elements in a list, but I’d bet no.

If a list of those characteristics is ever going to be processed client-side, it might pose challenges, as 10M characers weights around 10MB. If you multiply that by 200 text elements, you have a solid 2GB being managed by client’s RAM.

bilgi1 · 2025-03-14T03:26:05.723Z

so what would be your aproach with long text field which will be used for api calls mostly? generating a txt file is some of the apps i saw like trello when you have more too much number of characters within a text file

ademiguel · 2025-03-14T09:23:42.914Z

If you have way more characters than 10M, you can’t store them in a single text field, period. An alternative is saving those texts as files (hard limit in this case is 20MB per record)

If you really need those texts stored as text elements, you could save chunks of the text so that it does not overcome the hard limit of 10M characters