Key Workflows
Analysis
Using Comments for Collaboration
9 min
flag risks, collaborate with your team and log your decisions comments use comments to communicate with other team members about a project and its progress to track changes, log information that isn't available in gis format and keep everyone up to date with comments, you can reply to team members and request reviews form threads annotate meetings and review potential solutions attach additional information about potential constraints or risks that are not captured within existing gis data, including links and files comments within the map can be georeferenced to 1m accuracy create a comment navigate to the lower left hand corner of your project map click on the icon the comment menu opens click anywhere on your map to open a comment box write your comment when you are satisfied, save it using the icon comment me nu the comment menu c ontains all previously created comments, and allows you to carry out different actions show thread where you can view all responses to the comment categorise users can filter comments by selecting a relevant category from the drop down menu at the top left corner some useful categories are 'constraint,' 'technical,' and 'for review,' but chose what makes the most sense for your project edit you can edit any of your previously made comments copy link creates a url linked to that comment when the url is selected, i f the individual has access to the project , optioneer will open in map view at the location of the comment export all comments in the project may be exported in bulk as a csv file, allowing easy inclusion in reports or presentations in order for others to see comments shared via the copy link feature, make sure they have access to the project space first attaching files to comments you can attach files to any comments, including powerpoints, pictures, graphs, url's and documents to do so click the icon , located on the lower left hand side of the comment box, and attach the relevant file from your file browser clicking open will attach them to the comment file size limit is 70mb d isable comments remember how map controls controls the global visibility of project features? this includes comments if you are finding the number of comments distracting from your current exploration of the map, you can turn them off by going to map controls > project features visibility > comments (toggle off) tags t eam members use tags quickly notify your team of new updates, concerns, questions, or additions to your project to tag a member of your team, open a comment within the text field, use the @ symbol to begin typing their name it will appear under the "users" field you can only tag people that have already been added to your project the recipient will be notified in optioneer and by email objects tagging objects lets you create a dynamic summary within a comment that refers to points, lines, polygons, options and save views interacting with the tags will either make you 'fly to' the asset on the map, or activate the save view tagging existing objects (lines, polygons, points, options , layers, and configurations ) within your project is easy! just like when you tag someone, type the @ symbol within the text field; this will cause a list of every item in your project to appear as you type the name of the item, the list narrows some use cases for tagging include 1) reviews and 2) versioning request a review by tagging the relevant user when the reviewer implements a change, they can link assets before and after the change and describe their reasoning what's next https //shared archbee space/doc/6xps2bofrvtolh6nwl3ng/hzra5imjt9q y1kwrnls https //shared archbee space/doc/skmc dgthrasxesish 7v/ikdzc vztwqumehshzffo https //shared archbee space/doc/qpo3dzosn9umh9itremho/wjkxnxdgjm6etlivlisqm

