Include attachment description in NXT view

We have laboriously added descriptions to all of our media attachments in the database view, but the descriptions are not accessible in NXT. Because of this, we no longer know what the attachment is unless we open it up.

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  • May 25 2021
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  • Christopher Horn commented
    11 Jul 14:37

    I'm sure this seems like an unimportant field from where a non RENXT user is sitting, but a. we have a lot of information summarized about grants and proposals in the media description field and b. It's not helpful or good for information security to have to download 5-10 documents to see which one I actually need on a record with a bunch of attachments named stuff like "Media 64.pdf". We've already entered all that information, Blackbaud has it, and just thinks it's unimportant.

    And there's got to be a way to have a description field: lists and dashboards still have the option to add a brief description. It would fit above or below the tags on the attachments grid on records.

  • Nilsen Septon commented
    March 23, 2023 13:49

    Programmatically, it can't be that difficult to add a description field for attachments...can it? - I would think not. Isn't NXT supposed to 'increase' our functionality but yet, you removed a pretty key field!!