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Open anaisconce opened this issue 3 years ago • 9 comments

Make it possible for users to leave comments on cells and create discussion threads about your data.

anaisconce avatar Aug 02 '22 15:08 anaisconce

Is there any progress on the feature yet? 😄

Alic94 avatar Jan 23 '23 16:01 Alic94

Yes! Thanks to @berhalak. If you set a COMMENTS environment variable to true, the right-click menu for cells will have an option to add a comment, and a sidebar to see discussion threads. In using comments ourselves, we realize that it needs integration with a notification feature to be broadly useful, so we're not officially releasing the feature until we sort that out (no promises on timeline for that).

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paulfitz avatar Jan 23 '23 16:01 paulfitz

Awesome! Thank you for the good news 😄

Alic94 avatar Jan 23 '23 21:01 Alic94

I'm on the hosted free trial so I can't set environment variables, but FWIW I'd love to see this functionality sorted and launched. Record-level comments/conversation is pretty key in an Airtable setup I'd like to migrate from.

toddz262 avatar Jul 19 '24 05:07 toddz262

I'm on the hosted free trial so I can't set environment variables, but FWIW I'd love to see this functionality sorted and launched. Record-level comments/conversation is pretty key in an Airtable setup I'd like to migrate from.

Are notifications a big deal for you? That's the main reason we're holding off, we don't have a good notifications solution (yet).

paulfitz avatar Jul 19 '24 13:07 paulfitz

@paulfitz - Thanks for asking. Notifications would be great eventually, but I imagine I could use a view based on recent timestamps as a workaround in the meantime.

toddz262 avatar Jul 25 '24 05:07 toddz262

@paulfitz - Thanks for asking. Notifications would be great eventually, but I imagine I could use a view based on recent timestamps as a workaround in the meantime.

I'd love to have the comments functionality, and notifications are not a big deal to me.

gest-ctrl avatar Jul 30 '24 02:07 gest-ctrl

Then you can use comments today on a self-hosted instance. Follow these instructions above:

If you set a COMMENTS environment variable to true, the right-click menu for cells will have an option to add a comment, and a sidebar to see discussion threads.

It gives you a new menu item:

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A new comment item in the context menu and a keyboard shortcut:

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And a comments sidebar:

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The feature currently lacks a notification facility, yet is otherwise fully functional.

almereyda avatar Jul 30 '24 11:07 almereyda

I'm on the hosted free trial so I can't set environment variables, but FWIW I'd love to see this functionality sorted and launched. Record-level comments/conversation is pretty key in an Airtable setup I'd like to migrate from.

Are notifications a big deal for you? That's the main reason we're holding off, we don't have a good notifications solution (yet).

We are interested too by this feature: notification to users.

tristanrobert avatar Mar 03 '25 14:03 tristanrobert

Thanks to more work by @berhalak and others, Comments got more features (@-mentions of collaborators) and have been officially released.

dsagal avatar Sep 02 '25 19:09 dsagal