Comment Function in InLoox Web App

With the InLoox comment function, you can easily and quickly communicate with your project team, individual team members, or groups.

Comments are available in:

• Projects on the Manage page
• Tasks
• Documents
• Risks (not included in InLoox Professional Edition)
• Time entries

Post a Comment

IMPORTANT To add project comments and task comments, you need the permissions Add project comments and Add task comments, assigned either as global user permissions, department permissions, or via role permissions. For more details about InLoox permissions, see the help article Permissions in InLoox Web App.

For example, if you would like to post a comment on a project:

1. Open the project.
2. Go to the Manage page.
3. On the right-hand side, you will see the activity feed. Click the Comments button.
4. If you are the first person to comment on the project, this area will be empty. Otherwise, you will see the comments that other team members have already posted.
5. Click in the field Enter a message… at the bottom and start typing.
6. If required, format your message.
7. When finished, click Send.

Address a Team Member, a Group, or a Role Using @

You can use the @ function to address specific people or groups.

• To address the entire project team (e.g., with a welcome message), type @ and select All Members from the menu.
• To address people who have a specific role in the project (e.g., Project Managers), type @ and select the group Managers from the menu.
• To address a single person, type @ and start entering the person’s name. InLoox will display all available contacts matching your input.

Comment Notifications

When you send a message using the @ function, InLoox sends a notification email to the addressed persons. You will also receive a notification email.

For more information, see the help article Notifications in InLoox Web App.

Delete Comments

You can restrict the permission to delete the following comments:

• Project comments
• Task comments

Go to InLoox Account Settings → User Management. Remove the following global and department permissions from a user:

• Delete project comments
• Delete own project comments
• Delete task comments
• Delete own task comments

Additionally, review the role permissions. For example, if team members should not be allowed to delete project comments and task comments, configure this accordingly in the settings of the Team Member role. For more details about InLoox permissions, see the help article Permissions in InLoox Web App.

IMPORTANT You must be an InLoox administrator to access InLoox Account Settings and configure permissions.

Search Comments in a Project

You can search comments within a project. The following comments are searchable:

• Project comments on the Manage page
• Comments on tasks
• Comments on documents
• Comments on risks
• Comments on time entries

Enter a keyword in the search field in the comment column. InLoox displays all matching results.