Enable Word Limits in Text Fields

[#1]

Description - We have a need to show and enforce a word limit at the custom form level on text fields. The use case for this is an automation we are building to send a content fragment (e.g., a paragraph) to another system (e.g., Seismic) for input into a piece of content (e.g., a PowerPoint)

Why is this feature important to you - This will enable the automations we are building between Workfront and other systems to assemble pieces of content with limited manual input. Without a word limit, users who are unaware of the limit will have to spend time rewriting content, which hinders the efficiency we are trying to create.

How would you like the feature to work - As stated in description.

Current Behaviour - No word limit is shown or enforced anywhere in Workfront to my understanding.

[#2]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the idea!

This is something we do not have in our roadmap but one thing that we are going to deliver early next year is Field Validation based on a defined condition. This will allow you to define rules for each field and define an appropriate validation error message if the condition is met. You can potentially use this feature to define character limits and error message for each text field (depending on the requirements you have for each of those) and potentially keep the overall character limit of this fields below the limit you have in mind.

Hope this will be helpful at least for now, until we look into form level settings in more detail.

Thanks again!