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brittany
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July 1, 2016

Enable Rules Engine to update with the option to replace Features comments or adding to them

  • July 1, 2016
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Right now we use Features to see which of our in app features are being used by our customers and the rules engine to populate this. Since Features are just yes/no we use comments to document the exact usage, ie 75% but our threshold for yes is 50%. Currently the comments system, replicates itself until the character limit is reach (ie. 75% 75% 75% 75%...). It would be lovely to have the choice to replace the existing comment.

    21 replies

    steve_davis
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
    July 1, 2016
    This is a great idea. I Certainly "me too" this!! 
    christopher_sanderson
    Helper ⭐️⭐️
    July 21, 2016
    I think what would be nice is adding a CHECKBOX to the "Load to Feature" rule that allows the admin to determine if the Comments should be concatenated, or if they should be replaced.  What is becoming a major problem is if a rule runs every day, it continues to add comment fields over and over until it reaches the limit of the tex box.  This needs to be resolved ASAP.
    brittany
    brittanyAuthor
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    January 12, 2017
    Chris or Steve,

    Is there any response or progress from Product on this?
    rajesh_gande
    Helper ⭐️
    March 14, 2017
    Sorry for the delayed response. We certainly see this as a gap and would like to provide more flexibility while updating the comments in 'Load to Features' action type.

    Added this to the roadmap will keep you all updated on this thread when we have better clarity on the timelines.
    brittany
    brittanyAuthor
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    March 14, 2017
    Thank you Rajesh! This is great news!
    kraig
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    April 20, 2017
    Bumping this thread as this issue has become a major issue for us.  We effectively cannot write comments using rules until this is resolved.  The only workaround I can think would be to create a separate rule that NULLs all of the comments for all features.

    Does anyone know of a workaround?  Thanks in advance.
    kraig
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    May 9, 2017
    Hi Rajesh - is there an update on this?  It's becoming critically important for us to be able to clear the "feature comments" using the rules engine or else we cannot use this aspect of Gainsight.  

    I've tried every workaround I can think of, but none of them clear the comments using the rules engine. The only feasible solution remaining is to store all of this information in an MDA table and build a report to display it in a similar fashion.  I will be exploring this option this week.  Thanks!
    brittany
    brittanyAuthor
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    May 12, 2017
    Hi kclark! I spent many many many days working on this on my own, with my CSM and with Support, and we were never able to find a work around. We had to give up using rules based comments for Features unfortunately. Perhaps someone from Product can speak to roadmap updates.
    kraig
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    May 17, 2017
    Hi Brittany, thanks for letting me know I'm not alone in having spent a ton of time trying to figure this out.  I recently noticed that we have the same issue when using rules to write comments to scorecard values as well.  Arg!!  I hope / pray / wish for this ability soon, as it's truly hampering our ability to take the next step with the product.

    Any comment from the Gainsight team on when this ability will be available?
    azhar_uddin
    Helper ⭐️⭐️
    May 23, 2017
    @Kraig. I have tried with scorecard comments. They don't get appended.
    I wanted to know if this is happening on Scorecard 1.0 or 2.0 ?

    Thanks