Required fields and character or number limits are being ignored - people are saving anything
What you are seeing
Required fields and character or number limits are being ignored - people are saving anything.
#Why it happens
The fields are standalone Input macros, not fields inside a Form container. Standalone fields autosave 800 ms after typing and are never validated.
#What to do
Wrap the fields in a Form container macro. Validation only ever runs when a Form container's Save button is pressed.
#Limits that apply here
Limit | Value | What happens |
|---|---|---|
Indexed property size cap | 28,000 characters | The per-page index of answers is capped. Over the cap, multi-value answers are first truncated to their first 5 entries; then whole forms are dropped from the index; and if it still will not fit, the |
#A few things that catch people out
Form ID is documented as required but nothing stops you saving the config without it - the macro just renders an error box on the page.
#Related
Someone's answers were replaced by someone else's
By design. A page holds exactly one record per form, not a log of submissions. A second pe
Changing a field's Input type wiped its answer and its settings
By design. Switching type clears the stored value and drops settings that do not apply to
Everything else
The rest of this family.
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