Display Description field in table

Hey Vivek, your post is now visible on the Community, though you can delete it if you want. As for you question, I'd suggest creating a Custom Field ("text" type) and copy the description into the field - it will be exported to the Excel file. Please let me know if that'll work for you 🙌

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Thanks for the answer, but won't work. I could have hundreds of items, doesn't make sense to create a custom field and then spend hours copying a perfectly functioning field (description) into it. Even if this is automatable i'm going to have a custom field that people could see and get confused by.

Hopefully this shortcoming is addressed in a future version. It's obviously possible since the full megadump has it, so it shouldn't be too hard to add it to the custom view dump.

Vivek, I understand aren't ideal, so please check out this Product Feedback post by Bien - you can +1 it and also share your use-case there 🙂

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ok will do. It's not that it isn't ideal, it's not a viable option. 

Would I be wrong in suggesting that this functionality has not been implemented in order to get users to upgrade to Business tier from Pro or Free?

Hi Paul Cook, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. Our different tiered plans offer different features, I'll pass on your feedback to the relevant team. 

How in the world is this not standard? Not being able to view the description of your task in the table view basically means we have to "just know" what the task is about...

Hi Jamie Dickinson, welcome to the Community 👋

Have you tried using our new Table View? In it, a task is opened on the right side (like in the List View), and not in overlay. Can it help? 

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Still can't add the Description as a column in the Table view ?

Hi Chris Hill, welcome to the Community 👋 It's not possible to add description as a column, but you can use our new Table View where a task is opened on the right side (like in the List View), and not in overlay (please see the screenshot in my previous comment above.) Can you please let me know if that's helpful for your use case? 

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That does absolutely nothing to solve for exporting though. Also with the new table the fields don't wrap the text of the fields so can read all the text in them - very infuriating. 

Lisa Thank you for commenting but this does not solve the issue.
For reporting purposes and exporting, the description data is key

Thanks a lot for clarifying, folks! I'll move this thread to the Product Feedback forum now 👍

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Hello,

Is now available any option to add the Description? Or still in progress/revision the enhancement?

thanks!

Hi Barrera, Paola, welcome to the Community 👋

It's not possible to add description as a field at the moment. Our team is aware of this feedback and we continue sending all new inputs here to them. 

Please let me know if I can hel pyou with anything else 🙂

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Hi Paulette Mastio, thank you for taking the time to post your comment and explain your use case. There haven't been any new updates so far. As suggested in the comments above, a possible workaround might be to create a "text type" custom field and copy the description into that field.



Rest assured, if there are any new updates in the coming months, we'll be sure to let you know. Thanks!

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Hello dear Wrike team:

Just wondering, is there any update to display directly the description from a task in the table view? or is it still needed to copy paste the information to a "custom field" column?

Echoing Luis' comment above - I am honestly surprised that this has been a requested feature for 6 years now and this functionality still doesn't exist. As others have noted, having to copy descriptions into a custom text field is not feasible when there are thousands of tasks across the platform. Additionally, it creates a confusing situation for users where it isn't clear whether it's best to add notes into the custom field or the description field. AND when the task is then open, you have to dig into the custom field dropdown to find the notes and there won't be any stream history of any changes made. 

If we are going to be forced into the table view because of the list view being deprecated, then at the very least you would hope that efforts would be made to clean up the table functionality. 

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Hi Rohan V The post that you linked has hit the 60 upvote threshold that you indicated several weeks back. Hopefully this functionality is now something you and the product team are able to assign a status to.

Hi James Stone 👋 thanks for the heads-up! 👍 I’ve reached out to the relevant team and will update the status as soon as I hear back.

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