Timestamped Comments?

Hi Cassy

My vision is to have a comment box to where they can enter a comment. Once they hit save, the comment hard codes below the box with a timestamp. The next person (or same person) comes back to that record later and enters a new comment and hits save, and it hard codes above the last hard coded comment. Showing a history of comments with timestamps.

OK that makes sense.  do you want them to do it in the form itself or by workflow?

I have created an "Add Comment" workflow on the list which is set to start manually and appears on the item context menu.

It has one variable which is shown on the start page of the workflow and is required.

The workflow does this:

1. Build String = Current date and time, new line, initiator display name, new line, comments added on start form, new line, item property comments (so new comments are timestamped and added above previous comments).  Stored into variable called vMTextComments
2. Update Item = set comments field on current item = vMTextComments

this will be possible to do in the form also if you wanted it to be done in there.

Hi Mike

I have tasks but not for this piece. I plan on having them use the comments to track tasks for each record. Essentially, a manager needs to go in to see each record and see the history before he/she approves from the form. That was the best way I could think of.

Hi Josh,

if you want to do this on your Nintex form, I think you will need some JavaScript:

function addComment() {

    var newComment = NWF$('.commentsBox p').text();

    if(newComment != "") {

        var oldComment = NWF$('.newCommentsBox textarea').text();

        var d = new Date();

        var combComment = oldComment + " " + d.toUTCString() + ": " + newComment;

        NWF$('.newCommentsBox textarea').text(combComment);

    }

}

This code requires:

• One SharePoint MultiLine column for comment input (css class = commentsBox)
• One MultiLine Textbox one your form to store all the comments (css class = newCommentsBox)
• A button which you need to configure to use Javascript as  Button action (clientclick = addComment())

Formatting may need to be improved but should give you something to start with.

Regards

Philipp

Glad to help.

You can set this control to read-only very easily by disabling it in the control settings:

Regards

Philipp

Philipp,

This is exactly what I am trying to do as well. I know this thread is old, but is there any chance you might be willing to help me further to understand how to get the JavaScript code connected to a button on my form?

Thanks!!

I think I am still missing something....

Hi Philipp,

I wanted to say thank you for your help with this. I guess my very very limited knowledge of JavaScript and the fact that I am new to Nintex really proved to hinder me in this one. I ended up accomplishing what I needed through a workflow though.

Thank you again for your help!