The length of the default value of the custom field

Is it possible to change the default value of the custom field from 255 e.g. to 500 characters?
Best Regards
Tomek

Hi,

The default value of a custom field can be changed by editing the custom field in the menu Display>Custom fields. There, you have a setting "default" where you can enter/select the default value of the custom field.

There is no limit setting for the length of the text you can enter in a custom field.
However, it is limited by the type of the column corresponding to the custom field in the database.
By default the type of the column is LONGTEXT which gives a maximum length of 4,294,967,295 characters.
So if that's what you're talking about, I would recommend checking the column type for that custom field in the database. If it's set to "VARCHAR" then the maximum number of characters will be 255 characters.

Nicolas,
it is about the length of the default value, where, for example, we have a text field and the default value for a new product will be "product contains allergens". The default value field is of the varchar type, i.e. max 255 - won't anything break when you change the database to Longtext?

Hi,

Ok, I see what you mean. Then, open the hikashop_field table in your PHPMyAdmin and change the type of the "field_default" column from "VARCHAR" to "LONGTEXT".
Nothing will break. And you won't have issues with updates either, don't worry.

Thanks,
it works

Tomek