Sales/Purchases: Description character limit

You say on your forum that this has been solved by inserting blank lines, but this process is cumbersome & the blank lines are always added at the start of the description, meaning if you have already input text, the description is out of order.  I don't see why I should have to attach a separate word file.  When using item invoices, there doesn't appear to be any limit to the number of lines

Has there been any update to this? Finding it quite annoying breaking up our paragraphs on every quote!!

Has there been any movement on this topic?? I came to vote and realised that I already had done but it was so long ago, I had forgotten. It is incredibly frustrating that there is such a limit to the number of characters available in this field. Even 'insert blank line' is also too limited. Trying to add a detailed scope of work by copy and paste, instead of having to type everything out numerous times, is virtually impossible. The characters end up cut off and it is only a limited number of lines that you can view at one time so you have to scroll to find the end/start of the next paste and even then it looks unprofessional on quotes and invoices because the spacing between each 'blank line' is larger than the spacing between lines within the field.

I have had it up to **bleep**'s bow with the inflexibility of MYOB and the disgraceful length of time it takes to get anything like this amended.  

Is there any update to this.. is a most frustrating thing as a mechanic who likes to give a clear description of work done, in one take.

Hi I would like to see more character spacing in the Invoice description area - we tend to have lengthly descriptions in each area and we run out of character space.  We then have to return and start a new area thus the system will input 0.00 under the amount section until you finish inputting all the description and then finally you input the amount to be charged.  The invoice would look better if the whole descriptio could be input and then only one amount is displayed on the invoice.  Is it possible to increase the number of characters please...

I await your comments

Cheers

Gloria

And also extending the maximum characters for Time Entries

Hi RuthMcKeown15 - you're right, this is a valid issue for companies providing professional services. Another issue is the length of Item names - currently a maximum of 30 characters (29 if importing data via Excel).  Whilst generally adequate, this is too small for some industries - such as automotive. Public hospitals with mainframe inventory systems have had problems with long drug names or where dosage instructions have to be included, for different patients - e.d. adult and child. Sometimes, a pharmacy system drug name, that's too short, has resulted in serious accidental drug overdoses.

The reason for short fields for item names and descriptions is performance and cost.

Modern data field lengths are usually 16 or 32 characters, though sometimes 64.

Longer field lengths slow down data processing - so 32 or 64 length fields need need a fast processor, that's usually more expensive. Also they need more data storage space - though this cost has been reducing, as 1 terrabyte drives become more common.

I'd like to be able to increase the character length of the descriptions in both the item record and the invoice, so that a more detailed desription can be included.

My business sells a few varities of the same item and being able to have a description that looks complete and describes fully would be excellent.

Surely others have the same issue?

We occasionally find that 255 characters ar insufficient for our requirements. Is there any support for an encrease to (say) 500 characters?