How do we enable comments for excerpts

Question

We have implemented excerpts in our documentation however we find that consumers/reviewers of the documents cannot provide comments.

Is there some way of enabling users to provide comments for excerpts?

Thanks & best regards

Richard James

Intellect Design Arena Ltd

Mumbai/Bengaluru

vmagry · Answer

Hi @Kristian Klima

I am facing the same experience as described, and not only a user cannot comment on an excerpt included from another page (Insert excerpt macro), and I understand how this can be difficult to handle since the contents technically isn't in that page, but a user cannot even comment on the excerpt where it is defined on the source page (Excerpt macro) which is more painful.
I note the workaround of using page comments but would appreciate is that feature could be considered in the future.

Thanks!
Vincent.

Kristian Klima_gtcuat · Answer

H @Richard Andrew James and welcome to the Community

Presumably we're talking about adding comments to excerpts inserted from some other page. In other words, you include a a paragraph from Page A as an excerpt on Page B an you wanna be adding comments on Page B.

That doesn't seem to be possible. As per the warning in the UI "You can only comment on text, headings, emojis, dates, mentions, links, and statuses."

An excerpt inserted to Page B is a property of Page A (permissions apply too)

I'd just develop a practice to include a comment over the last of word of the paragraph just ahead of the Excerpt - providing the excerpt insert macro is visible.

If not, as we did before inline comments were invented. Copy paste first three words from the excerpted paragraph into the regular comments section in " " and comment there.