2687374 - LMS: Character Limit of LMS User Record Fields

Symptom

You want to know the character limit of LMS User Record fields

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Learning

Resolution

Here are the character limits in user records' fields.

Please note that when you are importing the user ID through the import tool/connector the character limit is 30 but when you create this manually on the interface the max is 90.

Field	Character Limit	Field	Character Limit
User ID	30	Time Zone	100
Active (*required)	1	Locale	30
First Name	50	Currency ID	3
Last Name	50	Related Instructor ID	30
Middle Initial	30	Custom Column Name	300
Gender	1	Custom Column Value	120bytes
Job Code ID	50	Custom Column Name	300
Job Title	100	Custom Column Value	120bytes
Role (*required)	30	Custom Column Name	300
Job Location ID	30	Custom Column Value	120bytes
Domain ID (*required)	30	Custom Column Name	300
Organization ID	30	Custom Column Value	120bytes
Employee Type ID	30	Custom Column Name	300
Employee Status ID	30	Custom Column Value	120bytes
Address	600	Custom Column Name	300
City	50	Custom Column Value	120bytes
State/Province	50	Custom Column Name	300
Postal Code	50	Custom Column Value	120bytes
Country	256	Custom Column Name	300
Region ID	30	Custom Column Value	120bytes
Email Address	128	Custom Column Name	300
Supervisor ID	30	Custom Column Value	120bytes
Coach	30	Custom Column Name	300
Resume	200	Custom Column Value	100
Comments	600	Include in government reporting	1
Account Code ID	30	2483 Legal Entity	90
User May Use Organization Account Code	1	2483 Employee Class	90
Phone Number I	30	Hourly Rate Currency	3
Phone Number Description I	100	Native DeepLink User	1
Phone Number 2	30	Adjusted Hourly Rate Currency	3
Phone Number Description 2	100	Disability Classification ID	90
Phone Number 3	30	Gamification User ID	300
Phone Number Description 3	100

Note: Other languages can vary on how many bytes per character.

For example Japanese, Chinese and Korean can occupy more bytes depending on the character. It can be from 2 - 4 bytes

UTF-8 uses 1 byte to represent characters in the ASCII set, two bytes for characters in several more alphabetic blocks,

and three bytes for the rest of the BMP. Supplementary characters use 4 bytes.

UTF-16 uses 2 bytes for any character in the BMP, and 4 bytes for supplementary characters.

UTF-32 uses 4 bytes for all characters.

There are string to byte counters calculators online that can help assist you with calculations of characters for each language [These tools are not supported by SAP]

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