topic Very Long Text w/ Relationship to Polygons in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/very-long-text-w-relationship-to-polygons/m-p/235836#M13364 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have some polygons in ArcMap that represent customers and each customer has a unique text ID in the attribute table.</P><P></P><P>I would like to somehow store text data connected to those polygons. In reality, this would be a communications log where every time we interact with the customer, we log what was said.</P><P></P><P>However, it's my understanding that the text field type in an attribute table can only store 255 characters and I know a communications log will exceed that. More specifically, we hope to input new text to add to previous remarks using something like ArcGIS Collector.</P><P></P><P>I'm hoping some super users here can help identify some options for me to explore. With tables, CSV&nbsp; or TXT files, queries, ArcGIS Collector, databases, and more, there's got to be some sort of workable solution.</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P><P>Eric</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:38:25 GMT EricCrawford 2020-03-02T21:38:25Z Very Long Text w/ Relationship to Polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/very-long-text-w-relationship-to-polygons/m-p/235836#M13364 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have some polygons in ArcMap that represent customers and each customer has a unique text ID in the attribute table.</P><P></P><P>I would like to somehow store text data connected to those polygons. In reality, this would be a communications log where every time we interact with the customer, we log what was said.</P><P></P><P>However, it's my understanding that the text field type in an attribute table can only store 255 characters and I know a communications log will exceed that. More specifically, we hope to input new text to add to previous remarks using something like ArcGIS Collector.</P><P></P><P>I'm hoping some super users here can help identify some options for me to explore. With tables, CSV&nbsp; or TXT files, queries, ArcGIS Collector, databases, and more, there's got to be some sort of workable solution.</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P><P>Eric</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:38:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/very-long-text-w-relationship-to-polygons/m-p/235836#M13364 EricCrawford 2020-03-02T21:38:25Z