Work with review discussions

As a reviewer, you can add comments about a single component or an entire review in a discussion thread using the review's Collaboration panel. Use this feature when you don't want to add comments directly in the review content using the Review editor.

Review Components panel. Use this list to select a component that you want to start a discussion about. After you select a component, the discussion thread specific to that component are loaded.
Review panel. Use this area to see comments applied directly to specific content in a specific component. After you select a component, the comments specific to that text are loaded.
Collaboration. Use this are to see all the users participating in the review. You can also work discussions at the component or review level.

Tips and tricks

Adding a comment outside of the component text is helpful when:

A component has a Scope of Context Only.
There are too many comments in the component already. (Text added to the Component Discussions pane is not shown in the review editor.)

Each component in a review has its own Component Discussions pane. Select the component you want to discuss first, and then open the Collaboration panel, go to the Component Discussions pane, and add text.

The Discussion panes (for a specific component and the entire review) are always available in a review regardless of component type or user permissions.

You can only edit and delete messages that you post in the discussions panes.
If you are the review coordinator or the reviewer who started the thread, you can delete it if there are no replies. If there are replies, you must delete those first before deleting the thread.