Answers.Body: <p>I switched from the Certification field being a TAB (in Contacts) to INLINE, and now the certification list is a VERTICAL list inside the Contact form and it works. And I like it better.</p>
  <p>However, side-note, we have a hard limit of 63 custom fields in the Certification group. I think this is an SQL Join limit (we are using Civi-Spark).</p>
  
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Body: <p>We have created a Custom Data Group call Certifications. The Certification fields are 5 multi-select check boxes.</p>
  <p>The problem is when we create more than 22 of these Certification Data Fields, then when editing the fields for a specific Contact, we lose the View/Edit field at the far right, and the actual certification data fields don't show up.</p>
  <p>I think this is more of a FORM/web-page problem than a DB issue. I see there is an issue (<a href="https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/1330" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/1330</a>) where more than 92 custom fields is an issue. This problem shows up with 23 custom data fields.</p>
  <p>Presumably I can work around the problem by break up our data into different Certification Categories. But thought I would point out the issue here, to see if anyone has suggestions.
  Here are the screen shots that show the problem. Thanks in advance. <br>
  <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/iaCNy.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/iaCNy.jpg" alt="failure mode" /></a>
  <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/kDo7M.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/kDo7M.jpg" alt="works with only 22 items" /></a></p>
  
Tags: <custom-fields>
Title: Too Many Custom Fields show up in form
ThreadText: # Too Many Custom Fields show up in form
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-02-23)
  
  We have created a Custom Data Group call Certifications. The Certification fields are 5 multi-select check boxes.
  
  The problem is when we create more than 22 of these Certification Data Fields, then when editing the fields for a specific Contact, we lose the View/Edit field at the far right, and the actual certification data fields don't show up.
  
  I think this is more of a FORM/web-page problem than a DB issue. I see there is an issue (<https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/1330>) where more than 92 custom fields is an issue. This problem shows up with 23 custom data fields.
  
  Presumably I can work around the problem by break up our data into different Certification Categories. But thought I would point out the issue here, to see if anyone has suggestions.
  Here are the screen shots that show the problem. Thanks in advance.   
  [![failure mode](https://i.sstatic.net/iaCNy.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/iaCNy.jpg)
  [![works with only 22 items](https://i.sstatic.net/kDo7M.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/kDo7M.jpg)
  
  **Tags:** custom-fields
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2023-02-24. Score: 1
  
  I switched from the Certification field being a TAB (in Contacts) to INLINE, and now the certification list is a VERTICAL list inside the Contact form and it works. And I like it better.
  
  However, side-note, we have a hard limit of 63 custom fields in the Certification group. I think this is an SQL Join limit (we are using Civi-Spark).
  
  
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