3418039 - What's the limit of characters in Workflow comments section? - Employee Central

An application error is displayed when trying to submit a Workflow after adding comments.

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1. Navigate to any Employee Profile;
2. Perform a change within their information that wiill trigger a Workflow;
3. In the Workflow pop-up, add comments;
4. Click on "Submit";
5. Application error is displayed.

More than 4,000 characters were inserted in Workflow comments section.

Up to 4,000 characters are allowed in Workflow comments section. If more characters are added, system will throw an application error. 

Support Engineers: please check internal memo for logs example.

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