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March 28, 2024
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Enable Word Limits in Text Fields

  • March 28, 2024
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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.

23 replies

Employee
April 17, 2025

Hi @maceym1 , you should be able to achieve the desired result with our new advanced validation logic. You can look into this thread that showcases a lot of use cases for the logic, including character limit.

Employee
November 6, 2024

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!

Employee
July 19, 2024
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Employee
July 18, 2024

Hi @christopher29269095dwjg , 

Thank you for your feedback. Currently, we are reviewing our roadmap and I will communicate this further. We surely should consider moving this up in our roadmap. 

New Participant
June 27, 2024

Hi @naremu and @jon_chen - following up on my note above, is this something that can be brought further up the roadmap? looking through the community forums and idea threads, there are dozens of requests just like this one over the years. How can a "content supply chain platform" work effectively without the ability to control the output...?

New Participant
May 29, 2024

Hi @naremu is this considered the "official response" referenced by @jon_chen . Was hoping for something a bit more helpful... exact numbers do not help the use case as described by @maceym1  or referenced by many others through the years on this board... thanks!

Employee
May 29, 2024

Hello @maceym1

 

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Although we do not have this in our immediate roadmap, we will consider adding some limits to the text fields. Also, there are some default limits in place in the system, as the texts cannot be unlimited. We can provide the exact numbers if needed.

jon_chen
Community Manager
April 29, 2024

This idea is currently being investigated by the Workfront Product Management team. An official response will be provided by the end of May. Thanks for your patience!

 

@maceym1 

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@jt24 

@tamarabo 

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New Participant
April 24, 2024

Absolute must-have. It has been inefficient for my team to have to author their text in MS Word first to track word count before pasting over to Workfront

New Participant
April 5, 2024

I posted about this idea last year. Hopefully this is implemented soon!

 

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/character-limit-on-forms/idi-p/577508