diff --git a/docs-mintlify/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/comments.mdx b/docs-mintlify/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/comments.mdx index 2229a2e30d9b8..d52ca9d75cfc6 100644 --- a/docs-mintlify/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/comments.mdx +++ b/docs-mintlify/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/comments.mdx @@ -1,13 +1,14 @@ --- title: Comments -description: Discuss a dashboard with your team in threaded comments. Reply, resolve, react, and mention teammates, on the whole dashboard or on one chart. +description: Discuss a dashboard with your team in threaded comments. Reply, resolve, react, and mention teammates, on the whole dashboard, on one chart, or on one data point. --- Comments let your team discuss a [published dashboard][ref-dashboards] on the -dashboard itself. Start a thread about the whole dashboard or about one chart. -Other people can reply to it, react to it, and resolve it when the question is -answered. Mention a teammate with `@` to send them a notification. Everyone -who wrote in a thread gets a notification when someone replies to it. +dashboard itself. Start a thread about the whole dashboard, one chart, or one +data point on a chart. Other people can reply to it, react to it, and resolve it +when the question is answered. Mention a teammate with `@` to send them a +notification. Everyone who wrote in a thread gets a notification when someone +replies to it. Comments are on by default. An admin can turn them off for your account. See @@ -72,6 +73,41 @@ chart. In the list, a thread about a chart shows the chart's name: threads stay on the dashboard and you can still read them. If the chart comes back to the dashboard, its threads attach to it again. +## Comments on a data point + +A thread can also be about one data point on a chart, for example one bar or one +point on a line. Click the data point and choose **Comment on this point**. If +the chart supports drill-down, the same menu also has **Drill down**. A popover +opens next to the data point. It shows the data point and its value, and the box +reads **Start a thread on this point…**. + +{/* TODO: screenshot — a bar chart with a pin above one bar and the point popover open */} + +A data point with threads shows a pin above it. The pin shows the number of open +threads. A pin with only resolved threads shows a check mark. Hover the pin to +see how many threads are open and resolved, and click it to open the popover +with all threads on that data point. To see the threads in the panel, click +**Open in comments panel** in the popover. + +In the panel, a thread about a data point shows the data point under the chart's +name. Click it to show the data point on the chart. + +The data point is identified by its measure and its dimension values, not by its +position. When the chart changes, Cube finds the data point again: + +- If the value changed since the thread was started, the thread shows both + values, for example **12,480 (as seen on Oct 11, 2026)** and **14,020 (now)**. +- If the data point is not on the chart, for example because a filter removed + it, the pin is not shown. In the panel, the data point is gray and shows the + value from when the thread was started. When the data point comes back, the + pin comes back too. +- A change of time grain, for example from month to week, makes a different + data point. Threads on the old data point show as not on the chart. + +Comments on a data point are not available on **Table**, **KPI**, **HTML**, +**Map**, **Sankey**, and **Funnel** charts. On these charts, comment on the whole +chart instead. On a **Boxplot** chart, you can comment only on the outlier points. + ## Editing and deleting To change your comment, open its **More actions** (`⋯`) menu and choose