It could be I’m the only one with this challenge, but I’m hoping not. For regular submissions, one of my project forms has two fields where the user is asked not to go over a character limit. (This is for Web banner ads.)
Three out of five times, I get form submissions with excess characters, end up going back to the stakeholder and asking them to revise the content, and it ends up taking a couple of additional cycles. We note character limits in the form field instructions, but we all know how well people read instructions.
Any way you guys could entertain adding an option to set a character limit under ‘Single line text’ and ‘Paragraph text’? What a time-saver that would be!
I’m test-driving using Asana forms to populate tasks rather than my legacy Zoho Forms / Zapier workflow. Not having a character limit is one of the biggest weaknesses I’ve found in Asana’s form implementation.
Our issue is similar to @Benae_Colbert’s issue. We are having partners submit proposed content for structured marketing materials and we have set character limits. We’re doing the same workaround of mentioning character limits in the instructions and hyperlinking to a character counter, but the user-experience for our partners would be better if we could force a character count.
Adding an “X characters remaining” function under the field would enhance the experience even more.
Hoping to rekindle this request. Some better functionality in forms would be greatly appreciated. Would be great to allow designers to dictate whether questions are organized in more than just a singular column.
We’re using Asana forms more and more, because they are so darned convenient. So yeah, I’m constantly hoping we’re going to get a feature drop in this area!
Would love to see this implemented! We use Asana forms for email deployments and having an option to enforce a character limit in text boxes where we ask for Subject and Preview lines would be helpful.
Not being able to set character limits is a significant problem for us too - and it’s keeping Smartsheet sticky in our org. We have to keep it as an option b/c setting character limits is a fundamental requirement for certain forms. So frustrating!
This continues to be one of the most complained about aspects of Asana in my organization. People filling out forms do not read the form instructions and consistently submit information that exceeds our required character limits.
From a UX perspective, I’m a fan of the following style of character counter. As the user types the “remaining” character number goes down, which in this case, makes it easier for users to come up with a suitable short title.
We’re also running into an issue here. It breaks our integration with Jira when someone exceeds the character limit that exists in the Jira field but not in the Asana form. If we have the option to have short text/long text it seems like there should be character limits in place.
Hi there, is anyone at Asana actually looking into these ideas? I see no feedback in this thread 3.5 years after this suggestion was brought up, so I hope this could be implemented one day. I’d need this character limit feature to set up complex forms on Asana where setting up a max limit of characters in copy is crucial. Thank you
