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Is there a way to reorder comments?

Carmen Reed-Gilkison

I use Trello for brainstorming (among many other things) and many times enter things in the comment fields in numerical order. Trello automatically puts the last comment entered at the top - is there a way to reorganize the location of comments within a card?

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Mike_kuzrt1

Hi Carmen,

Great question! I'm afraid there isn't currently a way to do that, but I'll let the team know that's something you'd like to see in the future!

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Mike_kuzrt1

Hi Carmen,

Great question! I'm afraid there isn't currently a way to do that, but I'll let the team know that's something you'd like to see in the future!

Iain Dooley

@Carmen Reed-Gilkison is there a reason you're not using the description, or a checklist to add these items?

Carmen Reed-Gilkison

@Iain Dooley, I do use both. I like the comment field because I can add attachments.

Iain Dooley

@Carmen Reed-Gilkison when you add an attachment in a comment, all it does is add the attachment to the card then use markdown in the comment to link to it.

The same formatting works in the description, so you could easily just create the comment and copy/paste it into the description which would be nearly the same functionality with a couple of extra clicks:

https://www.useloom.com/share/f32ecb9e3a574436be17bbb1c07ed4d8

If you automated this with Butler you could do:

When a comment is added to a card with label "Record Comments" set the description to "{carddescription}\n\n{username}: {username} on {date}: {commenttext}" and delete the comment

The same code in Trellinator would look like this:

https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/ca81f385efebcb84cf0dd74522388573

Trellinator is an open source apps script integration framework you can see details about it here:

https://trello.com/integrations/#benkoboard

Carmen Reed-Gilkison

There is only one description field. I use multiple comment fields.

Elliot Koontz_m321w6

One thing I'll add here -- I think the ability to move a comment to another card would be helpful. I suppose it's as easy as copying the text and adding it in a comment on another card, but I think being able to move comments around more freely would be a helpful feature.

Adam Grabel

I second that. I found this comment while searching for a solution to this issue. When you copy text you lose the date when it was originally entered, which for some is important to retain.

Iain Dooley

@Elliot Koontz @Adam Grabel if you right-click the date of a comment you can copy a link to the comment, if you paste that into a comment on another card it shows up with a preview of the comment text

Adam Grabel

Great trick to know!

GenghisKen

I agree. I don't necessarily want to put comments in arbitrary order, but being able to display them in chronological order or the reverse (canonical bottom-posting versus the often-despised top-posting style) would be wonderful. Selectable at the workspace, board, and card level, with each providing an overridable default for the next more-specific context.

If you consider comments to be representative of the card's state, so you see the latest/current state by looking at the top comment -- that's one thing.

But if you want to regard comments as a chronology of the discussions and history of the card, bottom-posting is vastly preferred.

Of course, if they're stored as a linked list, even arbitrary ordering is possible. Just add a control for 'reverse the current order' and allow comments to be reordered by dragging.

Right now I'm using comments to record exchanges in another tool, transcribing (copying/pasting) each into a new comment. With the source being chronological, and the comment stream the reverse, it's easy to lose track and get confused. So being able to move individual comments would be useful here. 🤔

Users: give 'em rope.

Ahmed_3viwto

I think if sort by last updated is an option this would solve the problem,

user1752089463402

this is my biggest feature request of trello. *Movable comments* would make Trello so much more usable for keeping track of correspondence on a topic (card) from disparate forms of communication (Emails, Teams, Zoom Meetings, Actual Comments).

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