Why is my create “Multiple lines of text” column missing append changes choice field even with versioning?

Question

SharePoint 2013/365

I'm trying to create a "Multiple lines of text" column with the append changes setting. This requires that you have versioning turned on.

What happened to multiple lines of text text format and append changes only settings? is not an answer.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

The content will be missing if you are adding this column to a document library or document set. Multi-line text fields act differently in Lists than in Libraries. If you don't get what you want here, you can create a custom list with a multi-line text field to hold the data and link it with a lookup field.

Hope this helps, Mary Smith Greene