Is there a way to comment a column and/or an ...

[pbalerio]

Is there a way to comment a column and/or an expression?

[Aleksi_Alkio]

Unfortunately it’s not possible.

[Harry2]

@pbalerio Hi Pablo, if you want to add comments that are meant only for the app builders, then like @Aleksi_Alkio has said, it is not possible at the moment.

However, if what you want to do is to provide a more detailed description of a column or field for the app user, then you can use the column description box.

[pbalerio]

@Harry By add comments I meant a way to document apps “in the body of the program” close to where action is. After 3 or 4 months of having created an app it is difficult to remember why or how things are done.

Isn’t it a nice to have feature?

[Harry2]

@pbalerio Yes, that would be a nice feature to have, especially for app builders who need to update their apps after a long break, or who have to manage multiple apps at the same time. We’ll take this into consideration in future development. Thanks for the feedback.

[pravse]

This request comes up occasionally.

Excel has this pretty wierd way of supporting comments in formulas — using the + N() function.

I can of see why they did that but I’m not sure this is what we’d want. We may have to just invent our own thing.

[Robbo]

As a workaround, is there a problem if I use the following approach?

Select the column and enter my comment in the Description property using the following:

ifs(1=0,"This is my documentation comment")

Where I need to display a Description on my form I just modify it to 

if(1=1,"This is my description that is visible in the app","This is my documentation comment")

[Steve]

Those are perfectly valid approaches.

[Robbo]

Thanks Steve.