# 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.

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## 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.

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## What to do

Wrap the fields in a Form container macro. Validation only ever runs when a Form container's Save button is pressed.

![The Input configuration dialog with Input type set to Textarea, Limit character length switched on, empty Minimum characters and Maximum characters boxes and Required switched off.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/c7791d2f-8270-4bbe-b736-7b1dba4fce84.webp)

Minimum and maximum characters only apply while Limit character length is switched on for that field.

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## 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 |

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## 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.

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## Related

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[Changing a field's Input type wiped its answer and its settingsBy design. Switching type clears the stored value and drops settings that do not apply to ](https://help.gocapable.com/forms/changing-a-field-s-input-type-wiped-its-answer-and-its-settings.html)

[Everything elseThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/forms/everything-else.html)

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