Document Comments

This section is about document comments: comments that can be added to Daisy documents. More precisely, they are actually added to document variants, thus each variant of a document has its own comments.

Comment features

The current Daisy comments system is rather simple (text-only comments, no editing after creation, no threading) but nonetheless very useful.

Comment visibility

Each comment has a certain visibility:

• public comments: everyone who can read the document can see them,
• editors-only comments: only users who have write access to the document can see them,
• private comments: only the creator of the comment can see them.

Creation of comments

Everyone who has read access to a document can add comments to it. Editors-only comments can however only be created by users with write access to the document.

Deletion of comments

Comments can be removed from a document by the users who have write access to the document (this includes users acting in the Administrator role). Private comments can be deleted by its creator, independent of whether that user has write access to the document the comment belongs too.

When a document is deleted, all its associated comments are removed too, including private ones that the deleter of the document may not be aware of.

Daisy Wiki specific notes

Guest user cannot create comments

The guest user, though it is for the repository server an ordinary user like any other, is not allowed to create comments via the Daisy Wiki. This means that to create comments, users should first log in.

'My Comments' page

Users can get a list of all the private comments they added to documents via a "My Comments" page (accessible via the drop-down menu behind the user name).