Discussion Threads

You can view and contribute to discussion threads for entities to which you have security privileges. The Comments attribute enables you to add text about any entity in Ennov InSight .

Comments are stamped with your user ID and date of the entry. Security applies to the entire discussion thread, and only an administrator can modify a saved comment.

When using Comments:

• For assembly templates, you can use the Add Comment box to provide instructions to users about how to use the templates and provide a broader instruction to help users standardize the submission creation processes for your organization.
• When using multi-byte character sets (Russian, Japanese, etc.) an error may occur when persisting strings to the database that exceed the byte length set for the column even when the string length validation is successful. For example: If you are using a Russian character set (which contains two byte characters), you can enter a 2001-character string in the Comments attribute (which can contain 4000 characters). Ennov InSight will treat the entry as a valid length string. Oracle however, will generate an error because a 2001-character length string consisting of two byte characters will in fact be 4002 bytes. This exceeds the Oracle limit for the column (4000 bytes).
• The Comments text box is not displayed on View and Modify pages if there are no existing comments.
• If you create a discussion thread on a Product Detail Set or Product Detail Set Template and query on it by executing the Entity Audit Trail query, choosing an Entity Type of Discussion Thread, and selecting an Action (I/U/D), the Associated Entity Type and Parent ID columns for the records returned are blank.