# Auditing ACTION\_Target

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auditing-action-target/5984>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 7, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auditing-action-target/5984 "2013-03-07T16:24:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jim\_lapratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@jim\_lapratt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jim_lapratt)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auditing-action-target/5984/1 "2013-03-07T16:24:24Z")

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I have some audits that are trying to insert into the auditing table. Getting Data truncation: Data to long for action\_target error.

The ACTION\_TARGET field is set to VARCHAR(255) (Ignition default)

Can I Increase this to say 1024?

We are running 5.5.29 mysql so that looks like it should work and the latest version of ignition.

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auditing-action-target/5984/2 "2013-03-07T19:35:37Z")

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Yes, you can increase that column to 1024. You can also set the column in MySQL to TEXT which allows many more characters.