Ability to resize the comments tool widget
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This is a minor but sometimes useful feature.

The ability to resize the comments tool widget by dragging freely the corners instead of having to insert breaks on the text.
I was just going to suggest this myself when I found this. It seems extremely silly that this isn't possible.
Be able to resize a comment and customize it with a simple color and header text.

This way you can easily visualize the code that refers to that comment and group it.

Here's a really simple example:



This can almost be done but the flow arrows are still behind the comment, the text needs to be input using spaces, the resize is done using new lines and space which is cumbersome and all the comments use the same color making it dificult to differentiate.


Merged from 'Comment Customization' (idea created on 2016-03-04 10:24:11 by Simão Moura), on 2017-10-13 06:03:16 by Kilian Hekhuis

On screen actions become very big that need to access to read and change OS components since:

  • Screen actions can not call other Screen Actions
  • Server actions can not manipulate OS UI components

Therefore the screen action logic can not be broken down into smaller actions.  Using notes is the only way to document sub screen action logic.




Merged from 'Comment Customization' (idea created on 2016-03-04 10:24:11 by Simão Moura), on 2017-10-13 06:03:16 by Kilian Hekhuis

There's already an Idea for this, I'll merge this one with it. For visually grouping stuff, an idea I really like, there's already another Idea, here. Go over and like! :)



Merged from 'Comment Customization' (idea created on 2016-03-04 10:24:11 by Simão Moura), on 2017-10-13 06:03:16 by Kilian Hekhuis
Merged this idea with 'Comment Customization' (created on 2016-03-04 10:24:11 by Simão Moura)
Merged this idea with 'Re(size) comments in service studio' (created on 12 Nov 2018 19:03:38 by Frank Grooten)

In order to make the actions more readable, I would like to be able to (re)size comments.


For example I would like to have a short comment; though the comment field needs to have the same width or height as all the components it belongs to. This way you can visually group logic and read the logic even faster.



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Re(size) comments in service studio' (created on 12 Nov 2018 by Frank Grooten)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 13 Nov 2018 09:54:37 by Kilian Hekhuis
2014-02-07 17-02-43
Vasco Pessanha
Changed the category to
Service Studio


This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Re(size) comments in service studio' (created on 12 Nov 2018 by Frank Grooten)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 13 Nov 2018 09:54:37 by Kilian Hekhuis
2014-02-07 17-02-43
Vasco Pessanha
Merged this idea with 'Service Studio - allow setup/change Comments width/height on screens and flows' (created on 16 Apr 2019 16:58:31 by Luis Soares)

It would be good if we could easily configure/setup the Comments width/height.

Sometimes the Comments breaks the text down when we really not wanted (which is very annoying in my opinion and they can be hard to read).

Eg. 

It would be nice if we could resize the Comments by using squares on the sides/corners and then allow drag and drop them.



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Service Studio - allow setup/change Comments width/height on screens and flows' (created on 16 Apr 2019 by Luis Soares)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 24 May 2019 09:46:01 by Vasco Pessanha
2014-02-07 17-02-43
Vasco Pessanha
Changed the category to
Service Studio


This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Service Studio - allow setup/change Comments width/height on screens and flows' (created on 16 Apr 2019 by Luis Soares)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 24 May 2019 09:46:01 by Vasco Pessanha
2014-02-07 17-02-43
Vasco Pessanha
Merged this idea with 'Comment widget resize option' (created on 16 Apr 2020 08:25:07 by JitendraYadav)

Hi Team,


Please gives us the option to resize the comment widget.




This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Comment widget resize option' (created on 16 Apr 2020 by JitendraYadav)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 19 Apr 2020 11:44:36 by Vasco Pessanha
2014-02-07 17-02-43
Vasco Pessanha
Changed the category to
Service Studio


This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Comment widget resize option' (created on 16 Apr 2020 by JitendraYadav)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 19 Apr 2020 11:44:36 by Vasco Pessanha

I would've sworn I created an idea like this years ago, but I can't find it. Probably just complained about it :).



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Comment widget resize option' (created on 16 Apr 2020 by JitendraYadav)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 19 Apr 2020 11:44:36 by Vasco Pessanha

That's a really useful idea :)



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Comment widget resize option' (created on 16 Apr 2020 by JitendraYadav)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 19 Apr 2020 11:44:36 by Vasco Pessanha

excellent idea, would use a lot.



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Comment widget resize option' (created on 16 Apr 2020 by JitendraYadav)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 19 Apr 2020 11:44:36 by Vasco Pessanha

+1


earlier idea from 2011 that is on the radar :-)


https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/661/ability-to-resize-the-comments-tool-widget?IsFromAdvancedSearch=True



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Comment widget resize option' (created on 16 Apr 2020 by JitendraYadav)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 19 Apr 2020 11:44:36 by Vasco Pessanha
2014-02-07 17-02-43
Vasco Pessanha

Thanks Dorine,

Me and Kilian had feeling that was already an idea for this but couldn't find it.

Cheers



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Comment widget resize option' (created on 16 Apr 2020 by JitendraYadav)
- merged to idea 'Ability to resize the comments tool widget' on 19 Apr 2020 11:44:36 by Vasco Pessanha

Yeah, I searched for "comment" and "resize", but even Google turned up nothing. Thanks Dorine!