Add comments to copilots

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Comments are notes that are associated with items in your copilot. Use comments to help your team collaborate on the copilot design and provide feedback, or provide additional information on implementation details of your copilot.

In Copilot Studio you can attach comments to topics and to individual nodes within topics. The comments are stored in a table in Dataverse in the default solution.

Replying to an existing comment creates a comment thread. In a thread, you can discuss a specific issue and prevent confusion from other unrelated comments. You can delete a thread when it's no longer relevant, or mark it as resolved.

Manage comments

The Comments pane lets you create new comment threads, resolve or delete comment threads, and add or delete individual comments. To open the pane for a topic, select Comments on the top menu bar.

Comment threads can be created at both the topic level and for individual nodes within the topic.

Both types of comment threads are shown in the Comments pane. Topic-level topics are displayed first, in the order they were created, and node-level topics are displayed in the order of where the node appears in the topic.

Selecting a node-level comment thread moves the authoring canvas to the associated node and highlight it.

Selecting a topic-level comment thread moves the authoring canvas to the last selected node.

Create a topic-level comment thread

To create a new topic-level comment thread, open the Comments pane and select New.

Enter your comment and select Post comment at the bottom of the comment entry field. You can also press Ctrl+Enter to post the comment.

Create a node-level comment thread

To create a new topic-level comment thread, select the More icon (…) of the node, and then select New comment.

Enter your comment and select the Post comment icon. You can also press Ctrl+Enter to post the comment.

A comment icon appears next to a node that has comments. You can select the icon to open the Comments pane and go to the first comment for that node.

Edit, delete, and resolve comment threads

Select the More thread actions icon (…) at the top of a comment thread to edit its initial comment, delete the entire thread, or resolve the entire thread.

  • Editing a comment in a thread doesn't affect other comments in the thread.
  • Deleting a thread removes it completely. You can't restore deleted comments or threads.
  • Resolving a thread marks it with the label Resolved. To reopen a resolved thread select the Reopen icon at the top of the thread. Reopening a thread lets you add more comments.

Edit and delete individual comments

Select the menu icon at the top of an individual comment, next to the your name, to edit or delete a comment.

You can only edit or delete comments that you created.

  • Editing the comment lets you change that comment.
  • Deleting the comment removes it completely from that thread. You can't restore deleted comments.

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