Forum Discussion
Maximum text length
I wonder if this is a limitation of Power Query "M" versus the Desktop data model types. In other words, the data model Text type can theoretically support large amounts of text but the import process using Power Query is truncating it to 32,766 characters.
- vincent_123410 years agoHelper I
I tried importing in Excel and it's the same, text is cut off.
However the Excel limitations are clear about this https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Excel-specifications-and-limits-16c69c74-3d6a-4aaf-ba35-e6eb276e8eaa
Could this be the same for PowerBI?
Power Query has the same specs as Power BI, with much larger "Maximum size of text in a preview cell", however this being an Excel plugin, how do they come up with that. The results are still limited to 32767 chars
- Greg_Deckler10 years agoCommunity Champion
Hmm, I would post this as an issue and supply the references you cite and ask "What gives?".
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/360879-issues
All the references you cite indicate that you should be able to have more than 32,767 characters in a text cell so that says there is a bug or issue somewhere. Would be interested to hear if you get any feedback on it.
- vincent_123410 years agoHelper I
No answers yet, but it seems to be a kind of API limit.
The text in the cell is the actual size, however the data I receive in the custom visual is limited
- Anonymous5 years agoNot applicable
Hi Greg_Deckler ,
I think I am experiencing the scenario that you have just described. Power Query appears to truncate to 32K characters.
Is there a solution for this?
Thanks