# Slice name length limit

**URL:** <https://community.prismic.io/t/slice-name-length-limit/19726>\
**Category:** Features\
**Tags:** slice-machine\
**Created:** [May 21, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/slice-name-length-limit/19726 "2025-05-21T11:44:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![cerrutti](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.prismic.io/cerrutti/32/2908_2.png) [@cerrutti](https://community.prismic.io/u/cerrutti)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/slice-name-length-limit/19726/1 "2025-05-21T11:44:06Z")

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Hi there,

We are currently working on a Slice library for all of our projects. Since there is a lot of slice variations, I need to use slice names to show differences between them in addition to the covers.

But I found there is a length limit in these names, which is not appropiate for describing variations, so I have to shorten words, use initials or acronyms, and it looks horrible.

For example, I have a Content slice, with the following variations among others:

- Text (center) + Picture (right)
- Text (center) + Picture (right) / Full height

Look, the last one is wrong. I was thinking about why is this limit set, and I think it's just a UI limitation to keep names in 1 line:

 ![Slice selection (current)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/prismic/original/2X/5/539df8aac6a3caee87e3c103ed1e833ba87444f2.png)

My suggestion, at least to have a few more characters if you don't want to have 2 lines, is the following:

 ![Slice selection (proposal)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/prismic/original/2X/1/11305bdfeffec2bc7072295973929ea4d645cc6f.png)

Also, I would love to see the following features in the SliceMachine:

- Change variation ID in addition to the name
- Reorder variations
- Remove the default variation concept, instead use the first variation in the custom order as the Slice preview
- Copy&Paste variation to duplicate them, as you already have in Prismic editor

Thank you so much, you are doing an incredible job with the new Prismic UI and features.

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**Author:** ![Pau](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.prismic.io/pau/32/5422_2.png) [@Pau](https://community.prismic.io/u/Pau)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 8:26am UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/slice-name-length-limit/19726/2 "2025-05-23T08:26:06Z")

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This is great feedback thank you for sharing it! I’ll open a feature request for this.