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Bug
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Resolution: Duplicate
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Minor
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win7x64
While testing the latest LTS edition (v1.596.3) for potential rollout on our build farm I discovered a bug that prevents the modification of Sectioned Views. In the use cases described below, attempting to make any modification to a Sectioned View, no matter how trivial, results in a "Form Too Large" error being thrown by Jenkins. This effectively prevents users from making any modifications to the affected views.
From what I can tell there are 2 specific factors that cause this error to occur:
1. the number of jobs in total managed by the Jenkins instance (in our case, we have > 1200 jobs)
2. the number of sub-sections on the view of type "list view" (in our test cases, views with just one or two list view subsections seem to work fine, but ones with 5-10 subsections of this type don't)
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[JENKINS-28716] Form Too Large error when changing view options
Kevin Phillips
added a comment - NOTE: Anyone who may be experiencing this problem in a production environment may be interested to know there is a workaround described on JENKINS-20327 that may be of interest:
This workaround worked for us in our case as well.
Kevin Phillips
added a comment - NOTE: Anyone who may be experiencing this problem in a production environment may be interested to know there is a workaround described on JENKINS-20327 that may be of interest:
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-20327?focusedCommentId=190285&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-190285
This workaround worked for us in our case as well. 
This bug seems to be a symptom of the same problem described here. From what I can tell views of other types, and job configurations, no longer suffer from this issue so the problem appears to be isolated to just the Sectioned View. Hence the reason I created a new defect for it.