2992710 - Unable to decrease the length of a published custom field - Custom Fields

• You're trying to decrease the length of a published custom field but are unable to save it.
• Pop-up error is seen on saving with the following messages:
• Field cannot be saved. Correct invalid entries first.
• Field length must not be decreased. 

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• Custom Fields app

This is the expected behavior.

• The field length cannot be decreased once a field is published.
• As stated in the SAP Help Portal documentation "When you publish a field with a certain length, you cannot decrease the field length later on."

If this is a feature that you would really need, we would like to invite you to participate in the SAP Customer Influence initiative. There, you can submit improvement requests, explore existing ones, and vote on them. SAP will consider the most voted suggestions to be implemented in future releases.

Please check 1515837 - How To: Enhancement Request Process using the Customer Influence and Adopt site

SAP Help Portal | Creating Custom Fields

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