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Survey Question Comment Character Limit

  • November 26, 2018
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Hey, curious if anyone knows the character limit for comments when answering a survey question?

Best answer by lila_meyer

I heard back from product that Comments can have 4,000 characters.

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lila_meyer
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  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • November 26, 2018
Hi Nathanael,

Are you using Survey 2.0? It depends on whether you select a short text or long text question type. The limits are listed here.


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  • November 26, 2018
Hey Lila,

No, we haven't switched yet - still using Surveys 1.0. I was mainly inquiring about the Comments section that can enabled/disabled for a given survey question.


andy_roy
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  • November 26, 2018
If it's an NPS Comment, it looks like a Long Text Area (4096 char). I'm on Survey 2.0 and am not sure how it differs from your 1.0, but on the Survey User Answer object I see an "Answer Text" field which allows 15000 char. If I'm looking in the wrong place, then I'm curious to find out where those comments are kept. :)


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  • November 26, 2018
Thanks, I'm trying to fill back survey data when a case gets closed so I've gone the substring route for when anyone leaves an especially long comment.


lila_meyer
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  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • November 26, 2018
Thanks for the additional details, Nathanael! I'll check with our product team and let you know what I found out about Survey 1.0 questions that use the allow comments option.


lila_meyer
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  • November 27, 2018
I heard back from product that Comments can have 4,000 characters.


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  • November 27, 2018
Awesome. Thank you!