Hi all,

I wasn't quite sure where to place this so I thought I'd share via the forum.*

Recently ran in to a problem with Contour whereby the forms would not save and all we would receive in the UI would be a 'Failed to save form' message.

Initially I thought it might be something to do with the max json length for the webservice request, so I increased that and was still getting the same error.

Investigating the request, it just returns false. Investigating the logs, and it looks like there is a SQL error. Turns out that there is a database limit on these fields (and RegEx and DataSourceField)...

• Caption (250 chars)
• Tooltip (250 chars)
• DefaultValue (250 chars)
• RequiredErrorMessage (250 chars)
• InvalidErrorMessage (250 chars)

Now these limits seem reasonable to most, but some clients may use a caption which is greater than that length for example. The UI does not prevent them from entering more than 250 chars, so it is perfectly feasible that they might encounter errors. A simple maxlength property on the text input should do the trick. In addition, it might be useful to increase this limit in the database.

With Umbraco Forms this looks to be fixed as it is using a json file to group all this information, but I thought I'd raise it for anyone having similar issues with Contour.

*I'm not sure of the level of support that Contour will receive going forward now Umbraco Forms is around and so the issue tracker didn't seem like a good fit.