Hello ​@vinay1423,

Welcome to the Docusign Community. I want you to know that your presence and participation are highly valued. I understand the request enhancement to set a minimum character limit for the fields, making it easier for your end users. Thank you for sharing your Idea!

When creating a Template or sending an envelope, after you've created your text box (or by clicking an existing field), you can add a character limit to your text box on the Field Properties menu, located on the right side of the screen. You can enter your preferred character limit under the Add Text box (the default setting is 4000 characters). Is this what you are looking for?

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Hello ​@vinay1423,

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hey ​@Melanie.Panguito 

Thank you for helping me on the request,
but the thing is , is there any possible way to get the field set to minimum character limit, so that when any value entered less than that it should through an error.

if these is not in placed for the docusign, can we have any enhancement on it.
Thank you. 

​@vinay1423 

Yes, this is possible. You need configure a “Custom” validation on the text field with a Regex pattern:

You will get an error message, if you enter less characters than configured:

Regex Pattern example:

^ea-zA-Z0-9-]{6,}\b$

In this case 6 is the minimum character limit, please update as needed.

​@Michael.Rave 

Hey! I used this for my contracts where I am having customers input their credit card number, it works fine when I do it on an individual basis, but it seems like for some reason when this is added to a template, it changes what is in the box and has resulted in multiple clients getting stuck in an error loop where the system keeps telling them they need to enter 16 numbers, despite them having already entered 16 numbers.

It looks like it gets changed from:

^>a-zA-Z0-9-]{16,}\b$

to

^>a-zA-Z0-9-]{16,}\\b

Is this a bug/error? Or is there something I am doing wrong in my template set up?

Hey ​@Lemon1919,

Thanks for reaching out to the Docusign Community! We're sorry to hear about the issue with your Template. I want to let you know that I tested your Custom Validation Regex pattern ^>a-zA-Z0-9-]{16,}\b$ and it was successful. Both of these formats were accepted when I signed as a signer: 1234-1234-1234-1234 or 1234123412341234. The signer's error message could be caused by the regex pattern change mentioned, but we have no bug reports related to this.

I recommend saving it as a Custom field for reuse on future documents, adding it to your Template, saving it, and testing it. Using the correct template with the updated Regex pattern for your future envelopes is crucial. Please avoid using a copy of an envelope with the old regex pattern to make sure the correct application of your Custom Field.  Here are some related articles:

Custom Data Validation

Apply Data Validation to a Text Field

Create a Custom Field.

If you’re running into any trouble with that step, just let us know what you’re seeing—we’re here to walk you through it.

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