Working with the Comment Widget in an Analytic Application

As an application designer, you can now add a comment widget to canvas to gather and manage table data cell comments. When bound to the same data source and restricted to the same data cells, table cell comments are synchronized to comment widgets.

Context

Both analytic and planning models are supported.

Filter line is not supported. Filters of an analytic application opened from calendar tasks are not supported as well.

Procedure

  1. Click and from More Widgets, select and add a comment widget to the canvas.
  2. In the Builder Panel of the comment widget, configure data source.
  3. Define filters to specify the relevant data cells of a comment widget.
    Note

    In design time, the comment widget is read only.

Results

All relevant table cell comments of the same data range will be displayed in the comment widget.

In runtime, an application user can add new comments, delete existing comment or like a comment directly in the comment widget. The changes will be automatically updated to corresponding table. On the other hand, when application users add a data point comment to a table, it will also show up in the widget as the comments are attached to the data points stored within the model.

The comment widget supports all existing comment APIs. Table cell comment edited by APIs will be synchronized to the comment widget as well.