Live comments

Communicate with fellow creators in real time while you design on Editor X. Create element-specific comments, assign them to collaborators and filter comments to see what’s relevant to you.

Adding a comment

Select an element on the canvas, and from the floating action bar, click Comment. This opens the Comments panel on the right. Type your comment in the text box at the bottom and hit the send icon. To create a general comment, unrelated to a specific element, just open the Comments panel directly and start typing.

On the canvas, the floating action tool bar is open showing how to access comments. On the right side, the comments bar is open.

Assigning a comment

Type @ in the text box to see a list of all the collaborators and teammates who have access to this site. Select the person you want to tag in your comment. In case they’re not currently on the site, they’ll get a notification email to let them know you’ve reached out.

In the comments section, you can type @ and the list of collaborators will appear.

Editing & deleting

Once you’ve posted a comment, use the 3 dots beside it to Edit or Delete.

When you've written a comment, you can click on the 3 dots to edit or delete it.

Mentioned elements

Comments are page specific, so you’ll see a separate list of comments depending on the page you’re on. Above each comment, you’ll see the name of the element it relates to—and when you click on a comment, the relevant element will be highlighted on the canvas.

In comments, above each comment the element referred to is highlighted on the canvas.

Resolving & replying

Hit Reply to respond to a comment, and click Resolve when you’re done. Resolving a comment won’t delete it entirely. You can still retrieve it using the filter function.

In comments, there is an option to reply to or resolve the specific comment.

Filtering comments

You can choose which comments to display in the Comments panel. By default, you’ll see all Open comments. From the dropdown menu, you can decide to show only comments that have been Resolved, or My Comments—those are the ones that you’re tagged in, or have replied to.

In comments, it is possible to filter comments to see Open, Resolved or My Comments.

Transcript

Let’s take a look at how to communicate in real-time on Editor X using live comments.

So you’ve already got a team account set up—or you’ve got some freelancers working with you on a site, with roles & permissions assigned.

You’re busy at work, possibly from different locations and you want your content specialist to try out a new headline. What’s the process?

Select the headline, and from the floating action bar, click the Comment icon.

Now you can type a comment for that specific element. To tag a particular person, just type @ and a list of everyone with access to the site will appear. We’ll tag Neta, our content editor here.

At the top of the panel, you’ll see that the element we’re talking about is listed. (Here it’s the ‘Simply’ text). From the 3 dots, you can edit or delete the comment as well.

‘Neta’ will now get an email notification to let her know about the tag, just in case she’s not on the site.

Ok, now let’s take a look at the editor from Neta’s perspective.

Once she selects the comment here in the Comments panel, the element referred to will be highlighted.

Since comments are page specific, there will be a list of separate comments per page.

‘Neta’ can now edit the content, reply to the comment and resolve it if she wants.

The dropdown menu lets you filter comments to present open or resolved ones.

And you can choose to just view My Comments which shows ones you made yourself, any discussions you’re involved in, and any comments you’re tagged in.

To find out more about collaborating on Editor X, watch all the videos in this series.