Symptom
With the Latest Experience of Performance Management Forms enabled, Character Limit Warning is not displayed for non-required custom textarea fields
Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals
Reproducing the Issue
- Enable the latest form experience following the guide Enabling Latest Experience of Performance Management Forms | SAP Help Portal.
- Configure a non-required texarea custom field with the character limit specified following the guide Configuring Character Limits for Text Area Fields
- Launch a new form and fill in the texarea custom field, the text should exceed character limit specified in the template.
- Observe that the Character Limit Warning is not displayed.
- The Character Limit Warning is displayed, if the texarea custom field is configured as a required field.
Resolution
This is a known issue that is tentatively planned to be fixed in 2H 2025 release:
- Preview systems: October 13th 2025.
- Production systems: November 14th 2025.
Keywords
KI2025, Character Limit Warning, Character Limit, warning, truncated, custom field, required custom field, textarea, byte count, latest forms, latest form experience, meta-enforce-plain-text-length-limit, meta-enforce-rte-limit, PMU-24524, 2H 2025. , KBA , LOD-SF-MTR-FBK , Feedback: Get Feedback, Ask for Feedback, etc. , Known Error
Product
SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals all versions