Projects - Increase bill description character limit when invoicing from a project
Please increase the character limit for line descriptions when generating invoices from Projects.
Right now, if a bill line has a description that exceeds the small character limit, it gets cut off on the invoice. I have to then manually open each bill, copy the full description, and paste it into the corresponding invoice line. Obviously this is extremely time-consuming and inefficient for something that seems like a relatively small backend fix that would make a big difference to everyday usability.
Is anyone else dealing with this?
Accounts & Admin
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Hi there 👋, thanks for reaching out to our Xero Support team and clarifying the difference between your idea here from the one we merged to. Apologies for this oversight - I've restored your idea here.
While increasing the character limit of a bills description when invoicing from a project isn't something we have plans for atm, we can gauge the interest from community in this and will update you if there's any progression.
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Accounts & Admin
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To clarify:
The character limit is only 86 characters. The truncation happens when a Bill is assigned to a Project. Line item descriptions then load into the Project incomplete and this carries over when an Invoice is generated from within the project.
The issue therefore lies somewhere between PROJECTS add-on and BILLS - where bill line item descriptions are cut to just 86 characters (99 including spaces) due to a database limit. The shortened description is then carried over to INVOICES generated from within Projects and the only workaround is to copy/paste the original bill description for each line item into the corresponding invoice line item. The 86 character limit is excessively small and causes unnecessary rework. This is not to be confused with the 4000 character limit applied in Invoices which is discussed in another project idea thread.