Displaying Appended Text in Multiple Lines of Text Field on New Responsive Form

Hi @bamaeric 

Wow! I wasn’t aware of this feature. Thanks for highlighting it!!

This “Append changes to Existing Text” feature works really great!!

The only caveat is that you cannot use any form on that list and also you cannot retrieve the appended text (just the latest update). 

If you have a form on the site, export the form to make a backup. then delete the published form. now you should be able to view the history for the collumn.

This works. SPO List. - Have a multiline or long plain text column eg “TestActivityLog”. There is no Nintex Form on the List NAC/NWC - Build a workflow which will update that SPO List and the “TestActivityLog” column. Fixed Item ID at 1.  Perform several updates. Click the  “View Entries” link on item ID: 1

Sadly, you would not be able to display the Appended Text in in your New Responsive Form.
Well, you could - it requires the usage of SPO REST API to retrieve the version history.

/_api/web/lists/getByTitle('ListName')/items('ID')/Versions

Hope that helps

@Garrett  Thanks for the reply.

I was hoping I could use the “out of the box” functionality in SharePoint online to display the Comments on the form in an appended/audited style like you can in SharePoint on-premise form (see the image below). It doesn’t look like this display functionality is available in any of the Nintex Forms for O365 designers.

@bamaeric 

Sorry, no “out of the box” functionality. 
You can achieve something similar using the SPO REST API.

/_api/web/lists/getByTitle('ListName')/items('ID')/Versions

Below is ID:2 for the List. This is the column “ActivityLog” with all the previous versions. 

For the SPO REST API, the $select will filter the columns needed

_api/web/lists/getByTitle('TestActivityLog')/items(2)/Versions?$select=ActivityLog

This can be tested using your browser. It returns the result in XML data.

The NWC code is simple.
Start Event is a blank Form - Just click submit.

• Call a SharePoint Web Service
  - use the working or testing REST API URL
  - set the Output variable “obj_WebAPI”
• Query JSON -  “obj_WebAPI” → Response Content

  

• Log “col_JSON1_Output”
• Result after running the workflow

  

This isn’t as great as what you have shown. The SPO REST API Version has the complete details, its just a bit cumbersome to process the output and extract the information which you require.

Hope that helps

Hi @bamaeric 
Did this solve your question? 

I am actually working on this same problem, can you explain this a little further? I really only have to display the appended comments on a read-only form. I am currently in the process of migrating my workflow and form from Nintex for Office 365 in hopes that will give me more options with displaying appended comments.