Is there a bigger text box in a custom form?

[JillAc]

I FINALLY got our creative team to use the custom form for a brief and now they are saying that one of the fields cuts them off and they need more character count. I used the Text Box / Paragraph Text Box / L which is the largest text box I can find. Anybody run into this and have a solution?

[RyanKirk]

Hi Jill,

There's an article that outlines the text size limits in various areas.

https://one.workfront.com/s/document-item?bundleId=the-new-workfront-experience&topicId=Content%2FWo...

My suggestion would be to break out the sections further if possible. So the entire project brief isn't in just one text field. A lot of our projects have a .PDF upload with the brief leaving the description field more of the elevator pitch allowing our reports to stay pretty condensed.

[CalvinFold]

We ran into this and, sadly, we just had to have (in our case) three fields. So something like:

• Brief Description 1 of 3
• Brief Description 2 of 3
• Brief Description 3 of 3

Not my favorite way to handle these things, but…workable.

[RandyRoberts]

We broke the fields down into categories.

All of our jobs use at least "Background" and "Assignment" while some of our more creative type jobs use a combination of the following:

Brand Platform

Background

Assignment

Growth Opportunity

Target

What We Need to Convey

Support

Brand Character

Mandatories

Considerations

Deliverables

We use disply rules and display only the fields that are required for the job type. This also makes it easy to do summary reports because you can report on the relevant topic for that particular job type.