Viewing and Creating Comments

If enabled on the EDG server, the Comments tab allows users to associate comments with asset collections and assets.

Note

The Administrator Guide contains instructions for how an administrator can enable the Comments activated configuration parameter.

Recent Comments

When viewing or editing information about an asset, the Comments button shows how many comments have been added to it. Clicking the button displays a dialog box where you can see previous comments and add your own under the “Add Comment” title; click the OK button when you are finished.

Comments have a status such as “open,” “declined” or “resolved.” The status of those can be changed using a drop-down list to the right of each comment entry. If you also have the TopBraid Explorer (Viewer) application, the display can also include comments from those viewers, marked with (via TopBraid Explorer).

To get a list of of the most recent 100 comments for a production or workflow copy, select its Comments management view. These comments can be filtered by status, for example, to only display the “open” comments.

When resources are deleted, their comments are not automatically deleted with them. These are known as “orphan comments.” If there are any orphan comments associated with a given asset collection, the Comments view will include a hypertext link saying “Delete the X orphan comments about entities that no longer exist,” where X is the number of orphan comments associated with this asset collection. Clicking this link will delete these comments. You may wish to keep these for historical purposes or auditing purposes.