Character Counts for Text Fields

[thonewton]

Is anyone aware of character counts being a usable feature? I have a user wondering if it is possible to have Workfront count the number of characters in fields and display this information. All I seem to be able to find is related to character restrictions/limts.

Thanks!

[lgaertner · Accepted solution]

Hi,

unfortunately that is not possible. I'm eagerly awaiting the ability to apply some JavaScript functions and CSS formatting to custom forms. But I doubt that this is on the roadmap at the moment.

Perhaps you should submit this as an idea.

Regards

Lars

[KellieGardner]

In custom forms, we use the paragraph text field instead of the single line text field for areas we need to see character counts when inputting data. Personally I wish we could customize these to max out at different numbers but it's at least something we can visually see and coach on.

I also recently created a report for fields where we need to be cognizant of the counts for reporting purposes and it houses the character counts and flags them if they are over the count. 

[John_MitchellTek]

@KellieGardner How do you get the warning message to appear in the column?

I am trying to report on {lastNote} to show the number of characters in the last written update (for a quick eyeball of the quality of update) and I am getting either "0" or "50" using the calculated field LEN({lastNote}). Interestingly LEN({lastNote}.{project}) returns a slightly different value.