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3617088 - Latest Experience of Performance Management Forms Character Limit Warning is not displayed for non-required custom fields

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

  1. Enable the latest form experience following the guide Enabling Latest Experience of Performance Management Forms | SAP Help Portal.
  2. Configure a non-required texarea custom field with the character limit specified following the guide Configuring Character Limits for Text Area Fields
  3. Launch a new form and fill in the texarea custom field, the text should exceed character limit specified in the template.
  4. Observe that the Character Limit Warning is not displayed.
  5. 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