Hi again, sorry for spamming the forum Iām working on a site thatās localized in 5 languages and I need to set up a lengthy āterms and conditionsā page. Unfortunately, the size of the record exceeds the allowed 300kb. It appears that the size limit is the sum of the all the content in a record. Is that correct? I would except that 1 localized piece of content is 1 record, instead. Do you have any suggestions for how to proceed?
Iāve stripped down my HTML as much as possible using HtmlWasher, but that wasnāt sufficient.
I also noticed that the HTML editor converts diacritics and other special characters as HTML entity codes, which increases the size of records by a decent amount, in some languages.
For example: Ć becomes à, an 800% increase in size (idk if thatās how it works, Iām just being dramatic). Ć would be fine to store as is, right?
Edit: I tried converting my HTML to Markdown but even that wasnāt enough to fit the limit.
No problem, post as much as you want, thatās what the forumās for!
However, in this case, this is an technical limit that we have to look at on a case-by-case basis. Could you please send us an email about this at support@datocms.com with your project details and an example of what youāre trying to put in there? In some cases we may be able to suggest a better way to model the same data without running into the record size limit; or in other cases when there is no realistic workaround, we can manually change the record size limit for that specific project (only if there are no other possibilities).
But please send us an email with some details and weāll take a look at your particular case ASAP!
I dug around and was able to find your project, and I think found the right records (your legal docs, like the terms of service and privacy policy?). The way youāre using them seems fine to me; theyāre just long documents and each locale is about 70 KB, so yeah, after a few locales youāll naturally reach that limit.
I can increase the limit for your project, but unfortunately not while youāre on a free plan Were you considering upgrading to a paid plan at some point? If so, I can change it for you once you do.
Otherwise, if you want to stay on the free plan, you can make each language its own record ā not as convenient, I know, but itās a workaround.
Just to clarify, being nice never hurts, but in this case itās more of a technical constraint on our part So we check these requests on a case-by-case basis mostly to make sure itās not an accident thatās causing the increased record size. A common culprit is embedded metadata that Figma and other apps add to their HTML on copy, which doesnāt do any good in DatoCMS but drastically increases record sizes.
HTML entity encoding, by contrast, is a tiny increase (just a few chars extra) and not usually worth worrying about. Encoding them is usually a best practice to ensure successful transmission across different networks, languages, libraries, etcā¦ itās less of an issue these days with better Unicode support, but still not perfect everywhere.
Anyhow, in your specific case, you were doing everything right, and ran into the technical limit āorganicallyā. Thatās the kind of situation where we go, āYep, this is our systemās fault, letās raise it for this customer so they can keep working.ā
Iām working on a site thatās localized in 5 languages and I need to set up a lengthy āterms and conditionsā page. Unfortunately, the size of the record exceeds the allowed 300kb. It appears that the size limit is the sum of the all the content in a record. Is that correct? I would except that 1 localized piece of content is 1 record, instead. Do you have any suggestions for how to proceed?
Were you considering upgrading to a paid plan at some point? If so, I can change it for you once you do.