Sometimes Spacebar and Enter Key Stop Working

[Michael_McAvoy]

Hello,

Sometimes when myself or my co-workers are editing tasks the spacebar and enter key will stop working.

Is there a certain limit to the size of text that can be entered into tasks under projects?

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Thank you in advance for your replies.

[Andrea_Mayer]

Welcome to the Asana Community Forum @Michael_McAvoy

How much did you add into the description field so far?

In Oct 2020 Emily posted this comment:

Asana keeps crashing when pasting information in the task description

Hi @Mike_Moritz, welcome to the Asana Community Forum! sorry for the trouble here. This type of error are usually related to the amount of characters you have in the task description, usually if it’s close to the limit of 65k characters. If there is too much information in the subtask description or you are attempting to copy and paste a very large amount of characters into the description, for this reason you’re receiving this error. As a workaround, you can create another task or subtask to …

So it seems the limit was close to 65K characters.

However since then further formatting options have been launched for the description section so there might be some other limitations such as max amount if videos or images that you can add there.

@Richard_Sather might be something for your article. I‘ll do some testing tomorrow to see what the limits for the description field are.

[Andrea_Mayer]

@Andrea_Mayer

65K characters.

Okay, so I tested with just text and the limit of around 65K characters seems to be still accurate.

I had 65292 characters including spaces (55736 excl spaces / 65414 bytes) and as soon as I tried to add more text an error pop-up appeared asking me to reload Asana.

FYI @Richard_Sather

[Richard_Sather]

That’s great @Andrea_Mayer , thanks! I’ll add it to the list next week
Have a great weekend!

[Andrea_Mayer]

Thanks, You too!