Auto-Expandable Form Fields

Feature Ideas
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I want the ability to set formtext and formparagraph field to auto-expand horizontally and/or vertically, so that when the user inputs content that exceeds the columns/rows, the form expands automatically a needed row/column at a time.

Example: I have a snippet that has several form paragraph fields in it. In order to keep the form nice and tidy, I have them all set to 60 columns by 4 rows. Often though, the user inputs data that is copy/pasted from Salesfroce and will surpass 4 rows because of how it is formatted. It may be a block of notes and a students address. In order to see those notes, the user needs to manually expand the formparagraph by clicking and dragging the handle at the lower-right of the box, or scroll up. Small gestures to make, but the compound effect is quite significant.

Thank you as always, for considering.
-Brad :fire:

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Hi @Brad_Hedinger.

Thanks for always sharing your thoughts with us. We'll look into it and let you know once we have any updates.

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Hey Community. It might help if the requester shares their sample scenario directly with the support team so you can see exactly how they’re structuring the form fields. If a solution is found, it would be amazing to publish a simplified sample scenario as a reusable snippet for the community. I imagine others would benefit from the same pattern/setup or spark some other unique workflows. Many thanks!

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Hi @Cortney_Kolbee, welcome to the forum. :slight_smile:

Thanks for your suggestion. We're always pleased to receive any sample scenarios for requested features directly. Feel free to reach us at any time with all your thoughts and questions.

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Here you go, @Cortney_Kolbee. Try this. Copy/paste my initial post above into the field below. Then you will see how a majority if the content is out of view. You can grab the handle at the bottom right of the field to expand it manually, or scroll down/up. My feature request is to have the form field automatically expand to accommodate the inserted content; This would be an option that could be toggled on/off in the command settings. Hope that helps! -Brad

{formparagraph: name=Comments; cols=60; rows=4}

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Is there a lot of copy/pasting? All from the same space?

Could you have it read the data off the salesforce tab and autopopulate the fields instead? I've done this for something we need to pull a lot of content from SF and send it to something else.

You could also do a clipboard read instead, but that really only works if it's a singular c/p and doesn't fix the box size issue, just prepopulates.

All that to say, these are adjacent ideas and the request itself for a snap to content size would be helpful, so I'll upvote anyway :slight_smile:

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Thanks @Kevin_Roberts! They source from varying places depending on the interaction the advisor is engaged with at any particular time. I do have a majority of our snippets reading info from the SF screen and either inputting it, passing it to other apps, or using it to conditionally trigger logic scenarios though.