Is there a way to reference row comments?

@Sara_Jean_Kwapien How does what you are requesting differ from the “Activity” log that is in the bottom of detail views of records?
In my screenshot below, the last activity logged was from the press of a button that posts a “Started” timestamp and updates the status of the task to “In Development”, and you can see the prior update, when it was created, was “Entered”.

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It looks like activity on this topic tapered down, @Neil_S, but does the “Comment” bubble on the right-hand side of Coda help in this regard? If you click and highlight a row, on the righthand side of the screen is a talk bubble icon that you can click and view comments from the main page.

Does that help?

Here is my take on the comments.

If you want to make a task system (comment means unresolved task) then you could accomplish this with 1 or 2 fields for statussing and/or notes

The other “trick” is to have meetings so you can resolve all these issues in a batch. Batching work in meetings is very time economical. Ask yourself if you really need to waste time context switching like this in the first place

Adding a plus one for this. I am actually looking at this for a cross-doc scenario (mostly for row-based permission access to records).

So:

  • Main Doc for HR
  • Separate docs for leaders by who reports up to them
  • Example of a table where rows are employees

Because setting up permissions necessitates separate docs, we are trying to figure out if we can pull comments into a column to then pull them across docs.

I’m working on a little proof of concept in my last couple days. Stay tuned :slight_smile:

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…The proof of concept slowly comes to life. I am now able to pull in comment data as a pack sync table into a doc.

Just a little bit longer to polish…

Update: Apply here:

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Hey @Paul_Danyliuk this is a great achievement. You continue to impress all of us. Thanks for your contributions.