Summary

Most of the text-based fields in Jira Align have a hard-coded character limit.
This article confirms the character limit for the Description and Title fields of a Portfolio Epic.

Environment

Jira Align

Solution

The character limits for Portfolio Epics ( sometimes known as an Initiatives) are:

• Description Field = "123000" characters
• Title Field = “250”.characters

The error "Description: Text length exceeded = 12300 Characters" is seen when the maximum character limit is reached.