idea Display remaining character count when editing existing data in ArcGIS Survey123 Ideas

Display remaining character count when editing existing data

mwartman_grey — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:24:54 GMT

When creating new records, the character counter shows on the bottom-right of the text box and displays a warning when over the limit:

This does not occur when editing existing records. There is no indication when the text character count is over the limit in edit mode and this confuses users when they get an error message upon trying to submit a form:

This issue was described here:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/display-character-count-or-warn-of-exceeding-limit/td-p/1188057

Re: Display remaining character count when editing existing data

jcarlson — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:28:28 GMT

Love this idea! I've resorted to putting constraints and constraint messages on my forms, but if the character count could just always be there, it would make things much nicer for our users.

Re: Display remaining character count when editing existing data

JeffShaw — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 16:39:28 GMT

We need this too. I can't imagine why the form doesn't behave the same way as when used to submit the data originally.