Is there any characters accumulation limit for Macros ?

[BudiFXW]

Dear fellow Local Guides.

I start of using Macros for posting my post.

During this two months my Macros growing to 26 macros.

Some have long characters and I started using HTML commands which included table and link to image link.

the command become longer.

So after make a table with 4 column and 6 six rows. one column with link to svg files and one column with 45 characters in each cell.

I save it and took a copule of minutes, Sucess.

But after I open the Macro popup, the last four macros are corrupt and remains blank.

There still around 24 macro not being used.

Please there are any fellow Local Guides that can give a recomendation ?

I still need to optimize the Macros.

[PaulPavlinovich]

I don’t think there is any particular length limits for the Macros @BudiFXW , but they do need to fit into the overall post limit. I’m curious what someone who isn’t a moderator would need the Macro functionality for? We use it because we post the near same replies many times each day to help people.

It sounds like you possibly made the post HTML simply too complex and it may have been rejected.

Paul

[ErmesT]

@BudiFXW , macros in a forum are designed basically for text you will have to use several times, e.g. on my personal experience, for a quick recall of link to the Local Guides program Help page

Not for creating post.

The HTML functionality is available also on the post editor, so I am not sure to understand what you use macros for.

In any case, yes, I know that there is a limit, even if I don’t have more details

[BudiFXW]

Thanks @PaulPavlinovich .

I try to reduce my HTML code and use a usual charcter, so lets see what wil happend.

Thank you for your recomendations.

[BudiFXW]

Thank Yoi @ErmesT .

So I will take down the HTML code from the macros and use only simply text and link.

Thank you.

[C_T]

Hello @BudiFXW

As per my understanding, the Macro field serves as a text holder for text data. The HTML codes don’t come into action unless one adds that to a post or reply in the General discussion board.
Further, you can use all fifty place holders. I did not encounter any limit on that.
There is a limit of 20000 characters in any post in the General Discussion board. Did you exceed that limit while creating the macros? That is likely to happen when we use URLs to embed photos using HTML.

[BudiFXW]

Thank You @C_T , @ErmesT adn @PaulPavlinovich .

Now I understand that 50 macros fields, just for long text holder, not for HTML coding.

So I will take down the HTML coding and, optimize the macro fields just for text only.

Thank you for your fully insighted description about the purpose and function of 50 macros fields

[TusharSuradkar]

“So I will take down the HTML code from the macros and use only simple text and link.”

No, it doesn’t.

The macro “evaluates” HTML code and inserts the properly “evaluated” text as it would do in the HTML page.

I use HTML codes extensively in my macros @BudiFXW

~Greetings from New Delhi

[BudiFXW]

Thank you for your fully insighted description about the macros @TusharSuradkar

[TusharSuradkar]

Do you code any HTML from scratch using the tags @BudiFXW

If you can share your macro texts in HTML, I can optimize and squeeze them to the minimum, and perhaps the problem can go away.

If you see this website of mine, it is 100% hand-coded in HTML and the entire page is just 200 lines and 5k characters.

I’d be glad to help you with the macros.

~Greetings from New Delhi

[BudiFXW]

Hai @TusharSuradkar Thank you for your kind of words and appreciation.

Thank you for your fully insighted description about HTML.

I will :

• private massage you about my HTML
• Visit your website.

Thank you

[BudiFXW]

Hai @TusharSuradkar .

I try to visit your website, but it can not be reached since the mesasage : about:blank#blocked

Thank you

[TusharSuradkar]

Thanks, @BudiFXW

This is the correct URL.

This site is entirely made of tables nested inside tables with minimum HTML code.

~Greetings from New Delhi

[PaulPavlinovich]

@BudiFXW The easiest way to get the HTML right in the form that Connect will accept (it filters out a lot of HTML for style and security reasons) is to edit the macro in the post (or private message) editor. When it looks the way you want, switch the editor to HTML and copy it and then paste into a macro. Note that you need to take out all the extra

that Connect puts in or you’ll end up double spaced.

[BudiFXW]

Thank you for your fully insighted description about macros and HTML.

So I start to use macros only for short text and all the long HTML download and use text editor to keep it.

So I start to organized folder for my html file and when I needed, open comment, then clik HTML feature and paste the select all html contain file from the text editor, than click ok,

It works.

Thank you.

[AdamGT]

HI @C_T

I note that you said that there is a 20000 character limit on connect posts but today I hit the limit with the error message saying that the limit is 100,000 characters. I have to say that I find it almost unbelievable that my post has 100,000 characters but perhaps it’s counting the HTML characters.

[C_T]

Hello @AdamGT

Thanks for tagging.

Plainly, I never reached that limit anytime. My finding was based on two posts. A link to one of those is here

https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/General-Discussion/Help-Desk-Limit-of-20-000-characters/m-p/1603153?nobounce#M412721

One more article was on use URL shortening to remain within the limit.

But I find, Connect is evolving and now the new limit maybe five times the original one.

[AdamGT]

Hi @C_T

I can’t believe I have 100,000 characters in the post unless it is counting spaces or another possibility is that it is counting HTML characters.