A quick round of feedback today of trial users at our new customer site:
When viewing the “Comments pane,” several users wanted to know if there is a way to actually see the comments in this view instead of having to click on every one of them? Right now, if someone leaves a comment on a notecard, the Comments pane just shows the element, such as “Shape,” and “Notecard,” and not the comment.
Any way to select the color of the user “Dot” or cursor that represents that user? Some people are not in love with the automatic color assignment.
And continuing with colors… users keep asking if there will be any more choices on the “change background color.” idk.
Screenshot, crop, rotate, highlight, invert colors, etc. - Users seem to want some very basic image editing capabilities built in.
There seems to be some rule about when the Comments button shows up in the small context menu vs. not. Seems many users that clicking on the ellipses button when they dont see the comment option, but are expecting to, is not particularly intuitive (e.g., The comment button is not visible when clicking on a notecard, and must require another click to show it under the ellipses button.)
We don’t forget about the feedback you’ve shared and have been able to address some of these points in recent releases.
You should see comment consistency on the element toolbars, meaning that the comment icon is always on the main view of the toolbar (not hidden in the additional object options).
Images can be cropped and rotated in the workspace. We don’t have additional image editing functionally scheduled, but if that changes, we will be sure to let you know.
Consistency has also been addressed for object colors with the ability to create and adjust custom colors for object text, border, and fill.
As always, thanks for always sharing your product feedback.
Hey @Nate – Further to @stefanieo’s points, there are some changes coming soon to improve the general usability of the side panels. In particular it’s a pain when the panel automatically closes when selecting different objects and we’re looking to improve that in an upcoming release.
I’m hoping some general improvements here will make it easier to read unread comments across multiple objects as you described in item 1. Eager for your feedback once that effort is complete!
Hi @Nate ! The changes described above will be available with the Chat release. It includes a small visual update and improvements to the panel behaviour when selecting/deselecting objects in the workspace.
