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

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

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Unfortunately it’s not possible.

Harry2
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@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.

@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
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@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.

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.

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")

Those are perfectly valid approaches.

Thanks Steve.

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