Increase the Latest Comment Column Character Limit

Keith Bessette

The 'Latest Comment' column is a great feature to add the most current information into sheets and reports. It's helpful to be able to provide our executive team printed reports containing all of the information they need. And they don't have to worry about accessing Smartsheet directly. Unfortunately, we recently found there's a 350-character limit on the 'Latest Comment' column. So, we're not able to provide all of the information in a report if a comment exceeds 350 characters. If the 'Latest Comment' column could be adjusted to allow the default character limit of a text/number field of 4,000 characters, then we'd be more likely to be able to fit the whole comment.

trevrobwhite

The latest comment field type clips at 355 characters, whereas the number/text field allows for up to 4000 characters please can you allow us to customise the amount of text displayed before the comment is clipped.

Curious Chris

I will appreciate this function as we use this to track comments via update requests and comments are truncated.

Curious Chris

I will appreciate this function as we use this to track comments via update requests and comments are truncated.

gwtyler

The character length of the Latest Comment field needs to be increased. I use the field for task updates and project updates. The current character length is sufficient for a task update, but not sufficient for a project update. Project updates require more details. When the character length of the field is reached an ellipsis is displayed. When a pdf report is created to show the latest comments for projects, the ellipsis is displayed on the report instead of the entire latest comment. When the character length of the field is reached and no report is printed, the ellipsis is displayed in the respective row and the Conversations pane has to be opened to view the entire latest comment as opposed to viewing it in the sheet column/row.

Best Regards,

Fcamarata

We would like to see this limit increased as well. Otherwise, sharing the sheet as an Excel attachment is not effective.

AngieChristophersen

We would also love to see this limit increased. We use this field weekly to track the history of the task and in some cases, provide an Executive Summary for the full week which may include more than 350 characters. While we could use a Text column instead, only Admin level users can see the historical comments and we'd like the entire team to see them.