Make Description a required field on the Expense Report level

BridgewayCC

I was informed today that the only way to make Description a required field currently is to edit the setting on each category on a policy. Because of the number of Categories, Tags, and Policies that my company has set up on Expensify, I just spent the past five hours doing that.

It would be lovely (and a wonderful time-saver) if we had the ability to make the Description a required field on Expense Report transactions as a whole, not on a per Category level. Thanks for your consideration...

Rachael Hopkins

Hi @BridgewayCC We already have an Idea for that here, if you could add your vote?

BridgewayCC

https://community.expensify.com/discussion/comment/19066#Comment_19066

That's interesting, because I'm not able to vote on it because it says that the idea is already available. However, the idea that I (and the poster of the other idea) am talking about is not at all the same as what's currently available.

Rachael Hopkins

Ah, my bad @BridgewayCC! I actually think your Idea fits better with this other popular thread anyhow. While it's more general than just the Description, this would be the place to add your use case and vote.

BridgewayCC

I just left a comment there per your request, but it's a little disheartening to see that thread has been around for nearly three years but not yet implemented. 😕

Rachael Hopkins

It does take a while for these big things to come to fruition, but that particular one is right at the top of my list for submitting an internal proposal next! 63 is not a huge amount of votes when you consider we have 25k users in Community, so we sort of have to gauge demand both via Community and via Concierge, then we have a whole internal process that happens!