# ODK-X character limits

**URL:** <https://forum.odk-x.org/t/odk-x-character-limits/532>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 17, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/odk-x-character-limits/532 "2019-07-17T20:17:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/odk-x-character-limits/532/4 "2019-08-06T10:27:15Z")

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Hi @clarice_larson and @W_Brunette, thanks for your help.

It seems to me that the text type is just another name for the string type - and the xlsx converter changes text types to string types.

Using elementType works great for strings up to about 60,000 characters long. Any larger than this, and I get _Internal Server Error (500)_ when I try to reset the app server.

We require strings around 1,000,000 characters long. Is there any way to achieve this?

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