Virtual Agent Shorten responses
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07-18-2025 07:02 AM
Hi everyone,
I'm working with ServiceNow Virtual Agent and noticed that the "Shorten responses" option is enabled by default on all Text Response nodes. This causes long messages to be truncated with a "Show more" link in the client — which is not ideal for our use case.
I'd like to know:
Is there a global system property, client configuration, or renderer setting that controls the default behavior of this feature?
Can this be disabled globally (without editing each node manually)?

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07-18-2025 07:07 AM
That's a terrible default 😕
I've not done much VA development lately so I've not noticed this personally, but I'm subscribing to see if anybody has an answer.
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08-06-2025 12:34 AM
@krystian budz did you find a global property to disable this?
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08-06-2025 01:01 AM - edited 08-06-2025 01:03 AM
I dont believe there is global property to change this , even in documentation they are telling it to turn off , incase it is not needed. But i suppose that has to be done on each text node only.
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You can raise a HI ticket to servicenow on this to get more information.
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08-06-2025 01:05 AM
Yeah but this is terrible experience.
A tool should not introduce any feature as default in already existing records.
It should be defaulted in new implementations.