To add comments in fields with comma seprator

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hi ,

I am having custom field on my form , i want to add comments after previous comments with comma seprator , how can i get this done can anyone help me on this .

thanks ,Dinesh

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Layan Jwei 8,097 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Dineshkarlekar,

How are you going to add this comment?

If let's say you are filling another field, where you want this value to go automatically to the original comment field. Then maybe u can do sth like this

If(!originalField)

{

orignalField = newField

}

else

{

originalField = originalField + ', ' + newField

}

Please give us more details on how and when this comment field is going to be filled.

Thanks,

Layan Jweihan

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Dineshkarlekar 1,836 on at

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hi ,

thanks for reply ,

comment field is memo field on custom table, which is displayed on custom form

when ever the user add the entries in form , he will fill comments . so every time someone will be adding the comments so i want it to after adding any record in form , so i want previous comments , and new comments with comma seperator .

can you plz guide me which table method i should use .

thanks ,

Regards,

Dinesh

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Layan Jwei 8,097 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Dinesh,

Just so that I understand. So the new user will open the form and will see the comment of the previous user? And you don't want the user to delete the previous comment? But just add to it?
Are we talking about 1 field or 2 fields?

Also can you please update us and verify answers if the link/answers we provided here helped you in creating the dialog and uploading the file?
https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=30cbd07b-2873-ee11-9ae7-00224827e8f9

Thanks,

Layan Jweihan

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Dineshkarlekar 1,836 on at

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is it possible to do in 1 field because i have only on field on form .

Also can you please update us and verify answers if the link/answers we provided here helped you in creating the dialog and uploading the file?
https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=30cbd07b-2873-ee11-9ae7-00224827e8f9

i have tried verifying this link , but is is not continuesly loding since i click on verify .i will update u soon on it

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Martin Dráb 237,817 Most Valuable Professional on at

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These are the options I would consider:

Have a separate table for comments. When a user adds a new comment, you'll simply add a new record. This allows you to track other information, such as who added the comment and when. (Of course, I can't know whether this would be useful for your business scenarios or not). Another benefit is that you won't bloat up size of the original record and you may even get rid of the memo field and support filtering.
When/if needed, you can concatenate the comments and show them to use a user together.

Simply let users to edit the comment field.

Give users a dialog (e.g. a drop dialog) to add a comment (instead of editing the field directly) and add attach the new comment to existing comments in code.
Update: I've just found another thread of yours, To save the comments in field with curuser name and date and time, which clarifies that your current design doesn't meet your requirements and you need to follow the first of my suggestions.

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hi ,

Martin thanks for reply,

i will just check for requirements and let you know , then i will process as you suggested

thanks ,

regards ,

dinesh

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Dineshkarlekar 1,836 on at

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hi ,

i have created new table , added comments , user name and date and time field add created new grid on form which is having relation to header table , now plz can you guide me how can i get comments uneditable after saving and pass current user name date and time when ever someone save comment .

thanks , regards,

Dinesh

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Martin Dráb 237,817 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Let's keep the question of user name and time in the thread you've created for it (To save the comments in field with curuser name and date and time). Note that I already gave you the answer (using CreatedBy and CreatedDateTime properties) there last week. If you have questions about it, ask them there.

The way how you can prevent editing of saved records is setting AllowEdit property of the form data source to No.

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Dineshkarlekar 1,836 on at

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hi ,

martin ,

i set the allow edit property to no but this make grid uneditable when i add new line , when i create new line grid should be editable ,it only should be uneditable for previous comments .

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Martin Dráb 237,817 Most Valuable Professional on at

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AllowEdit controls whether existing records can be changed. Whether you can create new records is controlled by AllowCreate.

Your problem must be caused by something else.

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