https://sugarclub.sugarai.com/dev-club/f/questions-answers/8271/change-text-field-to-textareaI have a request from my users to change a Text field to a Text Area. This is a custom field in a custom module, so no concerns about &quot;messing up&quot; the out of the box. I know I can&#39;t do this in Studio, and the sane thing to do would be create a newen-USTelligent Community 12https://sugarclub.sugarai.com/thread/33497?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:32:17 GMT5c521d64-519d-47a6-9065-134618b211bf:674f9ea8-be1f-447b-96f5-f0714e90435dFrancesca Shiekh<p>Thank you <a href="/members/kuske">Harald Kuske</a>&nbsp;!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://sugarclub.sugarai.com/thread/33493?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:53:38 GMT5c521d64-519d-47a6-9065-134618b211bf:9b5d7adb-5424-46ed-8fe7-00ca90a0f9d0Harald Kuske<p>No problem if you are on-site.</p> <p>When you run an SQL like</p> <p>&nbsp; &nbsp;ALTER TABLE mytable MODIFY COLUMN&nbsp;mytext TEXT ;</p> <p>the&nbsp;current content of the column will be converted to text.</p> <p>Even in the cloud you could use the extension framework to &quot;overwrite&quot; the datatype of the column by a vardef extension (if you know it will work on-site) and the data will be copied over.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>