How to use more custom fields in SAP Marketing Cloud?

[dssebastian]

Hi,

in SAP Marketing Cloud there is a maximum of allowed custom fields for each business object. ( see https://help.sap.com/viewer/13d84c47bb6749a188fd53915c256516/2002.500/en-US/7a4a465413254133ba2ca0f8... )

In our case we will reach this maximum for "Products" in the near future but we will definitely need more than the allowed 3400 characters for custom fields and are already at ~80%. Currently we are not sure how to address this problem. Our initial thought was to use a custom business object to store all our fields in there and associate this data object with the business object "Product". But I had trouble getting this to work with OData and I am not sure if this the right use case. Before I go on with that approach I wanted to know if there is another or better way to solve this.

So basically the question is: Is there a way or a workaround to use custom fields that have more than 3400 characters combined for the "Product" business object?

Thanks you,

Sebastian

[KunalBansal]

Hi dssebastian,

As Saurabh mentioned in his answer, for each business context, a MAX amount of space is allocated in DDIC considering multiple factors, like performance, architecture etc in mind.

This is a HARD limit and it cannot be increased as of now.

There are influence ideas already submitted for this.

best regards,

Kunal

[former_member226]

Hi,

AFAIK, SAP has a hard stop limit as defined in the help document because of the backend ABAP DDIC structure level limitation, hence I don't think you will be able to store more than the prescribed level of characters(3400 Char in this case).

In general, CBO could be of great help as it can give you much more flexibility and it generates data of the box with just a few clicks.

BR
Saurabh