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Table View - Summary Text Is Truncated with Ellipsis

Description

While working in Table View, users may observe text truncation with ellipsis (...) in the Summary field:

[!description.png#1b4faaa6d44195e5633b8b883198d594!]

This happens under the below conditions:

the Summary field is configured not to be mandatory
the Summary field of the item is empty
the Description field of the item contains some text

Observed on

codebeamer 21.09-LTS (EMMA)

Solution

Workarounds available:

Hover the mouse over the status label to see the full text in a tooltip:
Create an additional You must login to see this link. Register now, if you have no user account yet. that gets the Description, then shows it as a column:

Formula:

replace((replace(substring(description, 0, 100), "~","")), "\\","")

The above sample calculation gets the Description, trims it to the first 100 characters and removes all "~" (escaping character) and "\\" (new line characters). Adjust the number of characters displayed by editing the 0, 100 part.

Result

The full description of the item is displayed: [!result.png#02da9c2be9fc46de9bbeb3a464881e97!]

Additional Information

Currently, this is the expected, non-configurable behavior of codebeamer. It was implemented in this way to support the compact styling of Table View as descriptions are usually longer than summaries, and could span multiple lines.

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