I’ve just started collaborating with a new team in Fibery and in these early stages we are doing a lot of planning, creating specs for things, marketing plans, etc, etc. This process involves multiple members contributing their thoughts to these docs over time. We are wanting a way to highlight chan…

Docs version history is released and should solve this problem. [image] CHANGELOG: July 30 / Documents and Rich-text History, HubSpot integration Changelog Documents and Rich-Text History Starting this week, rich-text Fields and Documents have version history:…

Interesting problem. Indeed versioning would solve this problem, we’ll add this case into History feature. So far it is indeed hard to propose a good solution, just special marks in a text maybe

[image] mdubakov: just special marks in a text maybe Yeah, I thought of different editors utilizing different formats, e.g. bold, italic, underline. Obviously there are issues with that though. Simpler and less obtrusive could perhaps be to add distinguishing regular characters to the beginni…

I don’t know if you had thought of it, but each user can highlight text that he/she has added and then link to the User entity for him/herself. Anyone can then click on the text and see who added it, and it’s a bit less obtrusive/cluttered than using the comments feature. Plus, if the References e…

Oh my god, I hadn’t thought of it!! That’s actually brilliant. Obviously we still need history at some point, but this is basically “manual history” in a sense. Thank you! And on a positive note re: Fibery in its present state, I’ll just say that this kind of flexibility is what helps make it a bet…

[image] Oshyan: That’s actually brilliant. …Thank you! You’re welcome :blush: By the way, in case it’s not obvious, you might want to recommend that users only highlight/link the headline for a block of text if they’re adding a lot. You can then assume that everything after the headline unti…

[image] Chr1sG: I don’t want to throw more into the mix, but you could also just use #mention of a user prior to typing text… Yeah, I did think of that option, but I find it more obtrusive, especially since it is harder to remove later if/when you want to “finalize” the document. The linked r…

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Docs version history is released and should solve this problem.

Topic		Replies	Views
Document Changes History Ideas & Features	13	1553	July 30, 2021
Named Versions in Docs and Rich-Text Field History Ideas & Features history	0	446	July 30, 2021
[✔️DONE] View Change History Ideas & Features	10	1939	October 4, 2024
CHANGELOG: February 18 / Mention people in the inline comments, text highlights, bug fixes Changelog	10	1491	February 20, 2021
Versioning in Rich Text Fields (and entities as a whole, too) Ideas & Features history	22	2797	July 31, 2021

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