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I'm trying to do a deployment on to a sandbox and I'm getting an odd error:

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Picklist value is too long for the max size of 40

As far as I know this limit has been removed for some time and confirm this buy manually adding a picklist value of up to 255 characters. This is a custom field.

Same error if I try to deploy with ant.

Is this a platform bug or am I missing something?

(PS: this is causing our continuous integration builds to fail so it's really more annoying than it should be)

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    I think 40 characters per value is still a limitation for a standard picklist field. 150 for custom field.
    – Sridhar
    Commented May 4, 2016 at 22:24
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    So you can add the value in the UI with more than 40 characters but not through the API? Weirdo!
    – brovasi
    Commented May 4, 2016 at 22:49
  • This is a custom picklist field. Updated my question to reflect that
    – NSjonas
    Commented May 4, 2016 at 23:11
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    The newest comments describe the same. success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000KSkNAAW
    – Adrian Larson ♦
    Commented May 4, 2016 at 23:46

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Apperently when they removed the picklist limit from the UI they didn't remember to remove the validations from the deployment API's.

Official Statement:

In Spring '16 as part of supporting Global Picklists (Pilot program, more information here), we stopped enforcing the 40 character limit for multi-select value labels. However, there are a few remaining places in the API where there still is validation enforcing these limits. We will consider removing these limits in the future but in the meantime you'd need to create those values manually or pass values under 40 characters.

Guess my CI isn't going to successfully build anytime soon :(

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