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LoanLoan's avatar
LoanLoan
Qrew Member
10 years ago

Suggestion to work around when ""Report too large. Maximum number of bytes in report exceeded"" error?

I want to queried all data from a table/report to save it into a local database. I've tried to export it into CSV format, however, got the problem as attached image. Please suggest ways to overcome it...
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KirkKirk1's avatar
KirkKirk1
Qrew Trainee
7 years ago
This is just about the most ridiculous product limitation I have heard of.   If there is some arbitrary and or undocumented limitation on exporting a table to a file, then the export function ought to permit chunking it into multiple files, zipping the output our auto-building a table report that includes the same fields (all of them) that are typically exported using the tool...
  • MarkLind1's avatar
    MarkLind1
    Qrew Trainee
    2 years ago

    100% agreed. If you max out a table's limit, then attempt to export records to try and reduce its total size downward, you're effectively stuck in an endless cycle of dealing with rather vague imposed restrictions that should be handled automatically through the export function QuickBase offers...



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    Mark Lind
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    CCI Systems, Inc.
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