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Parent page: Managed Projects and Releasing a Design
Altium Designer, in conjunction with your managed content server, supports Managed Projects – enabling a dispersed design team to collaboratively work on projects that are centrally stored and managed through that Server. Related to this, comments added to an area or object in a Managed Project's schematic or PCB document do not modify the document itself. This allows all working on a document to comment and review the design (or part thereof) in real-time – analogous to the Comments feature of Google Docs.
This commenting feature facilitates strong review and collaboration processes. Due to the server nature of comments (they are stored on the Server and do not touch the design document in any way) they become invaluable when:
There are three commands available for adding a comment:
► Use these links to access the corresponding command documentation pages for Schematic, or for PCB, respectively.
Launch one of these commands, and define the point, rectangular, or free-hand area for the comment where applicable. The Comments panel will appear, ready to enter a new comment. Type your comment, then click the control beneath. The comment will be committed, appearing in the panel. For point, area and component type comments, the comment will also appear in the document editor, linked to the point, area, or component, by a reference line.
Example comments overlayed on a child schematic sheet of a Managed Project. The Comments panel reflects all comments for the sheet.
When using the Freehand comment feature (Place » Freehand comment, Ctrl+Alt+R) – that allows you to add comments to a document by freehand drawing – the comment entry is automatically added to the Comments panel, which will contain context information as follows:
Click on the entry for the comment in the panel to access the standard field for editing the comment (Edit).
Example of using the Review Mode commenting feature.
The following points relate to working with comments and the Comments panel:
To resolve a comment, select it, then click the drop-down arrow of the button, and choose the Resolve option from the menu. The comment will be removed from the panel and the document view.
Resolving a comment essentially closes it, removing it from both panel and document view.
Resolved comments can still be displayed on the Comments panel. To do so, click the control at the top-right of the panel, and switch from Active to Resolved in the Comments section. All comments that have previously been resolved will be displayed on the panel. You also have the ability to resurrect comments that have been resolved. To do so, click the
button associated to a resolved comment you want to bring back. The comment will be reinstated, both on the panel and in the document editor.
Accessing previously resolved comments, and reinstating (re-opening) a resolved comment.
The Comments panel can display only the comments associated with the active document, or all comments, across all schematic and PCB documents in the Managed Project. To do so, click the control at the top-right of the panel, and switch between Project and Document in the Context section.
Switch context between viewing comments for the active document only, and all comments across the source documents in the project.
The display and appearance of comments is controlled from the Document Comments region, on the Data Management – Servers page of the Preferences dialog. Controls are provided independently for comments displayed on schematic and PCB. To turn off display of comments in the document editor – relying on just the Comments panel – disable the respective Show Comment Threads option.
Other controls in the region relate to the look and feel of the comment, and its reference line respectively.
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