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24 VOTE
Status SUBMITTED
Categories Patch My PC Cloud
Created by James Russell
Created on May 31, 2024

Extend the description box to be longer than 250 characters and support a markdown preview

When creating a custom app in the portal currently the description box only supports 250 characters however it would be good if this box could support larger values. Also could you display how the text would look as the description box supports markdown.

What Patch My PC product is this new application request for? Patch My PC Enterprise
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  • Justin Garrett
    Jul 14, 2025

    This would absolutely help our staff be able to provide more in-depth descriptions as well as allowing us to use html markup in the descriptions for links to internal documentation.

  • Guest
    Jul 14, 2025

    Extending the description box beyond 250 characters and enabling a markdown preview would significantly enhance the usability and clarity of custom app entries. In many cases, we need to provide detailed instructions, context, or formatting that simply can't be conveyed within the current character limit. Markdown support is a great feature, but without a preview, it's difficult to ensure the output appears as intended. This improvement would streamline documentation and improve consistency across deployments. Looking forward to seeing this implemented!

  • Paul Andrews
    Jun 18, 2025

    Not sure if Microsoft previously has a limit of 250 characters. If they did that has changed, as now when you manually create an app in the Intune console the character limit is 10,000 characters.

  • Paul Andrews
    Feb 26, 2025

    I echo the need for this idea. We have a number of applications where the description is greater than 250 characters, and we either have to pair it down or abandon using Custom Apps and manually create the application in ConfigMgr.

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9 VOTE

Custom Apps: Increase the character limit for the description field and add live markdown rendering

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Currently, the description field for custom apps is limited to just 250 characters, which restricts the amount of useful detail we can include. It would be incredibly helpful to allow longer entries and provide a live markdown preview so we can fo...
Guest about 2 months ago in Patch My PC Cloud 1 SUBMITTED