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Mentioning someone in a comment

Overview

Note: To use this feature, e-mail integration settings must be enabled and configured by your instance administrator.

Within comments you have the ability to mention other Blueprint users as well as stakeholders that do not use Blueprint. 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.

About e-mail-integrated discussions

To learn about the benefits of e-mail-integrated discussions and how it works, see the following video:

To mention a user in a comment:

  1. Type the @ symbol and attach the name of the user or e-mail address of the person you want to mention. Example: @David or [email protected]

    If you are mentioning a Blueprint user or an e-mail address that has been referenced in a comment before, Blueprint displays a list of matching users and e-mail addresses.

  2. Click the user or e-mail address that you want to mention in your comment.

    • If you are entering an e-mail address that has not been mentioned before, press ENTER.

After you publish the comment, the individual that you mentioned receives an e-mail notification if your instance administrator and project administrator have configured and enabled e-mail notifications from the Instance Administration Console and Project Administration Console. Also, if you mentioned a Blueprint user, the user is now automatically following the artifact. By following the artifact, the user will receive updates about the artifact in the Activity Center.

Learn More

Adding a new comment

About the activity center

About discussions and commenting

Viewing comments in the utility panel

Replying to an existing comment

Changing the status of a discussion