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Nov 26, 2018 6:28 PM UTC
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Survey Question Comment Character Limit

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

lila_meyer
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nov 27, 2018 7:02 PM UTC
I heard back from product that Comments can have 4,000 characters.

Lila Krutel, Dir. Global Education Services

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lila_meyer
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nov 26, 2018 6:46 PM UTC
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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Lila Krutel, Dir. Global Education Services
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Nov 26, 2018 7:05 PM UTC
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.

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andy_roy
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Nov 26, 2018 7:21 PM UTC
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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Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nov 26, 2018 8:18 PM UTC
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.

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lila_meyer
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nov 26, 2018 9:21 PM UTC
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.

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Lila Krutel, Dir. Global Education Services
lila_meyer
Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nov 27, 2018 7:02 PM UTC
I heard back from product that Comments can have 4,000 characters.

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Lila Krutel, Dir. Global Education Services
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Nov 27, 2018 9:49 PM UTC
Awesome. Thank you!

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