Collaboration for Stories
You can collaborate on a story either by creating a discussion or by posting comments.
Discussions in Stories
Comments in Stories
You can add comments to a specific page or widget within a story. Other users can reply or simply Like your comment.
You can also edit your own comments within the story, widgets or data points as long as you have the Add Comments privillege.
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You should have Read, Create, and Delete permissions for Commenting.
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You should have Add Comment, View Comment, and Delete Comment permissions on the story.
- To add a comment to a story page, on the page tab bar, select the drop-down menu and choose Display and select Tab
Bar.NoteYou can add comments to a story in embedded mode only if the administrator has enabled commenting in embedded mode.
to submit. Enter your comment in the displayed dialog box. You can add upto 3000 (Unicode) characters in each
comment. If the tab bar is not visible, then go to
- To add a comment to a story widget, open the right-click menu of the widget and go to Place Comment to
submit.NoteYou cannot add comments to widgets containing input controls.
. Enter your comment in the displayed dialog box and select
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In addition to adding comments to specific widgets and pages, you can add comments to data points in tables. You can also copy comments from one version to another when creating a private version. For more information see Adding Comments to a Data Cell.
- To mention a user with whom you have shared the story, use the (@) sign <username> in the comment. For more information, see Share Stories or Global Bookmarks.
- You can format your comments with different font styles and colors, add bullet or number lists, and insert hyperlinks.
NoteThe comments under the Comment column in a table are displayed with the default format settings.
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Once the comment is posted, a comment icon is displayed at the top right of the widget or page tab bar. The comment icon and comment thread fade away if the story is not set to ( Comment Mode).NoteYou can add up to four distinct threads to a specific widget or page tab bar, and a maximum of 200 comments to a story. As you add multiple threads to a widget or page tab bar, comment icons will be superimposed on one another. The top icon is associated with the most recent thread.
To view all the threads in a story, select the button and choose (Comment Mode). Select the comment icon to display the comment thread.
- Time – newest to oldest comment or vice versa.
- Pages – comments will be listed under their respective page headings.
All entries in the panel include an associated comment icon and text from the most recent comment in the thread. Select an entry to view its entire thread.
- Reply: enter your text in Reply here ... and select (Send).
- Like: select the Like icon for comments in the thread.
- Delete: select the icon next to the comment you
want to delete.NoteYou can delete only your own comments and if you have update rights to the story. To delete all the page or widget comment threads within a story, use the (Delete) icon in the Comments panel.NoteComments cannot be edited.
- Creating a copy of a story – the copy will not contain any comments.
- Using the Save As option to create a new story.
- Duplicating a widget or a story page.
- Exporting a story to PDF.
- Story comments cannot be viewed or added in the Digital Boardroom.