Can over character limits be formated to be red?
Ok, we all know red means alert. I have so many applicants who get confused about not being able to submit an LOI, Application, or Follow-up due to being over the character limit. There is no visual cue to direct them. Can that please be changed and save me the time of having to figure out what the problem is, having to increase the character count or explain it one more time?
Patti Biera
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Lauren Benton
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I am posting another comment about this because it was once again an issue for us this year, and I want to add more info. The error message for this lists it at the bottom of the form, so many of them assumed it was for the text box immediately above the error, when in fact it was somewhere farther up in the form. This resulted in them drastically cutting down their recommendation words for the students, obviously VERY bad.
I would again hope that a jump to the offending space feature could be implemented, or at the very least adjust the wording to "you have exceeded the limit of ### characters in at least one of the responses on this form, please review your responses" etc. AND also make the offending space have the RED text.
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Lauren Benton
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This was a big issue for us this scholarship season. So many calls and emails about not being able to submit because of exceeding character limits, but they couldn't see where in the application because it didn't redirect you to it or highlight the sentence in any way. I too would like it to be in RED like in other software applications.