Comments are plain text responses to posted ideas that enable discussions about the ideas.
Required Editions
| View supported editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To view the Ideas tab: | Read on ideas |
| To view and vote for ideas: | Read on ideas |
| To create ideas and add comments to ideas: | Create on ideas |
| To edit ideas and edit comments on ideas: | Edit on ideas |
On the Ideas tab, the Comments subtab lists the comments that have most recently been submitted. On the detail page of an idea, comments are sorted in chronological order from oldest to newest.
See Also
Adding Comments to Ideas
Add comments to ideas to share your thoughts and opinions with other Ideas community members:
- On the Ideas tab, locate an idea on which you want to add a comment.
- Click either the title of the idea or the Comments link below the idea description.
- On the detail page for the idea, type your comments into the text entry area in the Add Your Comment section. You can enter up to 4,000 characters.
- If your organization has enabled the HTML editor for Ideas, the description can include HTML and reference online images. If the HTML editor isn’t enabled, use plain text only.
- To submit your comment, click Post.
Your newly added comment displays in the Comments related list on the idea detail page.
Editing Comments on Ideas
To edit a comment that you submitted on an idea:
- On the detail page of the idea, click Edit next to your comment.
- Modify your comment as desired.
- To save your work, click Apply.
Deleting Comments on Ideas
Deleting comments on ideas requires the “Delete” permission on ideas.
- On the detail page of the idea, click Del next to your comment.
- Click OK.
Viewing Recently Posted Comments
To view the comments that have most recently been posted to your Ideas community, click the Comments subtab and select a zone in which to view comments. Click the text of a comment to view the detail page of the appropriate idea.
On the Comments subtab:
- Comments are listed in chronological order from newest to oldest.
- The title of the idea on which the comment was posted displays above the comment.
- The alias of the user who posted the comment displays next to the comment text.
- The total number of comments on the idea displays in brackets below the comment text. For example, Comments [20] indicates that the idea has twenty comments.