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Michael Walker (992●15●201●157) | asked Nov 03 '09, 2:27 p.m.
When we add Descriptions or Comments that are larger than the field can contain, it creates an attachment for us. Is there a way to perform a search on all the Comments that also includes the text put in the attachment?

For example, we have 10 separate Comments in a record and 2 of them exceeded the length and had attachments added in. If we want to search for a word among all those 10 comments and that word is in the attachment only it doesn't seem to find it.


Separate question: I saw in another post that the Description field was 32768 chars long. How long is each Comment allowed to be? And is there any way to increase the allowable length?

Thanks,

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Work Item & UI Commons Team (1.3k●1) | answered Nov 04 '09, 4:38 a.m.
miwalker wrote:
When we add Descriptions or Comments that are larger than the field
can contain, it creates an attachment for us. Is there a way to
perform a search on all the Comments that also includes the text put
in the attachment?

For example, we have 10 separate Comments in a record and 2 of them
exceeded the length and had attachments added in. If we want to
search for a word among all those 10 comments and that word is in the
attachment only it doesn't seem to find it.


Separate question: I saw in another post that the Description field
was 32768 chars long. How long is each Comment allowed to be? And
is there any way to increase the allowable length?

Thanks,


Yes, a search for work items (e.g. from the quick search box on the
bottom) or the inclusion of the "Full Text" condition for a work item
query will always also search inside attachments.

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Benjamin Pasero
Work Item & UI Commons Team
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Michael Walker (992●15●201●157) | answered Nov 04 '09, 5:00 p.m.
miwalker wrote:
When we add Descriptions or Comments that are larger than the field
can contain, it creates an attachment for us. Is there a way to
perform a search on all the Comments that also includes the text put
in the attachment?

For example, we have 10 separate Comments in a record and 2 of them
exceeded the length and had attachments added in. If we want to
search for a word among all those 10 comments and that word is in the
attachment only it doesn't seem to find it.


Separate question: I saw in another post that the Description field
was 32768 chars long. How long is each Comment allowed to be? And
is there any way to increase the allowable length?

Thanks,


Yes, a search for work items (e.g. from the quick search box on the
bottom) or the inclusion of the "Full Text" condition for a work item
query will always also search inside attachments.

--
Benjamin Pasero
Work Item & UI Commons Team

Thanks that worked. I was using the Ctrl-F function to find text, which is why it wasn't searching the attachments.
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Jan Harris (56●6●5) | answered Oct 24 '11, 11:37 a.m.
I can query based on the contributors updates to comments, however it seems this is not an option for "Description".

I would like to be able to query for items where the description was modified by a contributor. Anyone know if this is "working as designed"?

I can instruct contributers to add a comment when they close a work item, however some work items are short, and just have all information included in description.

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