Aligned Elements Web Client User Manual
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  • Introduction
  • Basic Concepts
  • Get Started
    • Activate your Aligned Elements Account
    • Log In
    • Open a Project
    • Change Project
    • Create a new Project
    • The Project Start Site
    • Your Assigned Items
    • Manage Your User
    • Log Out
    • Enter Design Control Items
      • Work with Chapters
      • Work with Table Attributes
      • Inserting Images in Attributes
      • Set Traces
      • Add Issues
      • Add Attachments
      • Collaborate using Comments
      • Favourites
      • Find in... Action
      • Inconsistencies and Positive Cues
  • Document Object Actions
    • Update Multiple Items
    • Generate Design Control Items
    • Copy Design Control Items
    • Lock Document Objects
    • Generate Reports
    • Export Document Objects
    • Import Document Objects
    • Copy Document Objects between Projects
    • Import Files
  • Explorers and Views
    • Project Explorer
    • File Explorer
    • Trace Explorer
    • Test Run Explorer
    • Project History
    • Chapter View
    • List View
    • Export to Excel in Grids
  • Project Status
    • Display Inconsistencies
    • Display Consistency Coverage
    • Display Risk Summary
    • Display DHF Index
  • Queries
    • Run a Query
    • Design a Query
    • Query Filters
  • Charts
    • Display a Chart
    • Design a Chart
  • Trace Tables
    • Run a Trace Table
    • Design a Trace Table
  • Work with Documents
    • Adding Word Document to File Objects
    • The Word Add-in. Adding Design Control Items to Documents
    • Sign Documents with Electronic Signatures
    • Save Files to Disk
    • Released Document View
  • Design Reviews
    • Conduct a Design Review
  • Risk Analysis
    • Perform a FMEA Risk Assessment
    • Perform a Preliminary Hazard Analysis
    • Relative vs. Absolute Mitigations
    • Potential Hazard
    • Using the Risk Analysis to assess the Software Safety Classification
  • Manage Tests
    • Test Runs
      • Planning a Test Run
        • The Burndown Chart
      • Executing a Test Run
      • Completing a Test Run
      • Test Run Functions
      • Test Runs and Linked Projects
      • Caching of Test Runs and Test Run Explorer
    • Classic Tests
  • Work with Tags
    • Add Tags
    • Filter views on Tags
    • Edit Tags
    • Tags and Snapshots
  • Assistants
    • Run an Assistant
  • Snapshots
    • Create a Snapshot
    • Display a Snapshot
    • Compare Snapshots
  • Settings
    • Project Information
    • Manage Users
    • Manage User Groups
    • Project Settings
    • Project Hierarchy
      • Branch Projects
      • Merge Projects
    • Unlock Objects
  • Dashboards
    • Select a Dashboard
    • Create a Dashboard
    • Remove a Dashboard
  • AI Features
    • AI Features in Aligned Elements
  • Aligned Elements Automation Tool
    • The Automation Tool
  • Web Administrator Tools
    • Manage Projects
    • Rename, Copy or Remove Project
    • Manage Users
    • Manage Permissions
    • Register a new Administrator
    • Inspect User Logs
    • Manage Templates
    • Download Log Files
  • Manage Service Configuration
  • Configure a Type Name Change
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  • Add a Comment
  • Reply to a comment
  • Notify users by @mentioning them in a comment
  • Voting on Comments
  • Promote a comment to an Issue
  • Resolve a Comment
  • Decline a Comment
  • Finding Relevant Comments
  1. Get Started
  2. Enter Design Control Items

Collaborate using Comments

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Last updated 11 days ago

Use the Comments tab to add comments and send notifications to your team members. Comments can be used to discuss and clarify details or a particular design item during its life cycle.

Note! Comments are activated on a global level (for all design control types in all projects on the server) in the web.config file. Likewise, the web.config file contains a setting that enabled notification via emails:

  • To the author of a comment if the comment has received a reply

  • To the author of a comment when the comment is up- or downvoted by a user

  • To any user being mentioned (see below) in a comment

All comments are visible to all members of the project. Anyone can work with comments.

Add a Comment

Type in the comment field and click Send to add a comment. A timestamp and user name will indicate the creation. Click Edit to change the comment or access the Delete button to remove it.

Reply to a comment

Enter a reply by clicking on Reply and add a reply to the initial comment.

Notify users by @mentioning them in a comment

If you type an @ character in a comment, you will be prompted with a list of available users in the project. By mentioning a user using the @ character prior to the name, an email containing the comment or reply is automatically sent to the mentioned person.

Voting on Comments

You can upvote or downvote a comment by clicking on the corresponding thumb icons under the comment.

Promote a comment to an Issue

You can create an Issue (promote) based on a comment by clicking Promote to Issue. The comment will be used as the title in the Issue (the comment will remain). After being created, the Issue will automatically be traced from the parent item of the comment.

Resolve a Comment

Similar to how Comments are used in Word, clicking Resolve is a way to indicate that the content of the Comment has been addressed and to communicate to other comment reader that all work regarding the Comment has been completed. The Resolved state is visually indicated by a green checkmark.

Decline a Comment

Clicking Decline is a way to indicate that the content of a Comment has been actively declined, such as in declining a suggestion for making a change. This also communicate to other comment readers that no actions will be taken regarding this Comment. The Declined state is visually indicated with a red cross.

Finding Relevant Comments

Use the Comment Filter in Queries to filter out comments that have a particular state (Resolved/Declines) and/or where you are mentioned. Note that this operation yields the Document objects containing these comments, not the Comments themselves.