Adding a new comment

Comments allow multiple stakeholders to collaborate on requirements. Blueprint users or e-mail collaborators can add comments to any artifact or sub-artifact, including (but not limited to) textual requirements, use cases, actors, use case steps, diagrams, shapes in diagrams, glossaries, and glossary terms.

Note: Comments and replies cannot be deleted, unless your project administrator has enabled this feature. You can collapse a discussion and change the status to closed. Read more about Changing the status of a discussion.

To add a new comment to an artifact:

  1. ClosedOpen an artifact.

    Click the artifact ID link of the artifact you want to open.

  2. ClosedOpen the Discussions tab in the utility panel.

    1. Click the Discussions tab icon.

      You can also point to the tab icon to view the name of the tab.

  3. ClosedClick the New Comment link.

    A new text field appears.

  4. Type your comment into the space provided.

  5. Click the Publish link located below the comment to publish it.

Note: You must publish your comments, or publish the artifact, before you comments can be viewed by other users.

Learn More

About discussions and commenting

About the activity center

Viewing comments in the utility panel

Replying to an existing comment

Changing the status of a discussion