[Feature Request] Tag people in comment / discussion

Sumith Rajagopalan

Hi,

 

Will we be able to tag or reference people in the discussions in the near future?

It will be good if we could just tag or reference people (@) by their name in the discussions and they get notified.

 

Currently, we have to add a comment / discussion to retain the context to that row and then have to 'Send' that row to whom it was meant.  However in most instances, they reply back to the email, so the discussion never gets updated !!

 

Thanks

 

Kenyon Bajus

+1. Discussions is crippled by the lack of this feature.

Shaine Greenwood

Hi All—This is a feature our Product team is working on developing and I've got your votes down to increase visibility of demand for @mention functionality.

Kent Vaughn

+1 for me also.  

 

This is simply a huge hole today.   For those using G-Suite, this capability has become so common place that it is becoming almost a  requirement if the tool is to get traction in the organization.   

Claire Diener

+1 from me too! And have response emails auto populate the discussion would be ideal!

Shaine Greenwood

Hi All—got your votes down as well.

 

@Claire—I've also passed your feedback along for a feature that populates responses to Alerts and Send as Attachment emails in a sheet as comments.

Sumith Rajagopalan

@Shaine Can you give us an estimate on when this feature will be available?  Q12017 or later?

Shaine Greenwood

Hi Sumith, I don't have an estimate or timeframe for when this feature will be available in Smartsheet, but I've passed your feedback along to our Product team.

Crandall

+1 for me too. Getting rid of that extra step of sending an update request - or bringing in someone else for a discussion in the comments section - would definitely expedite the process.

Sumith Rajagopalan

@Shaine SmartSheet team not providing a roadmap of features is a show-stopper for me.  Everyone do not go gaga using SS, it requires constant push for user adoption.  And not being able to provide answers to such crucial feature requests, puts me in a difficult situation !!

Daniel Stein

Hi Sumith,

We agree that @mentions are super important -- thanks for your feedback! While we don't yet have a specific release date, we are targeting the 1st half of 2017.

 

Please keep any feedback and questions coming.

 

Best regards,

Daniel

Product Manager

StacyDe

+1 for me, I was just looking for this as I added a comment... like "will the person that this row is assigned to get a notification, or can I tag him?" then I found this thread

Shaine Greenwood

Hi Stacy,

 

Thanks for your input—I've got your vote down for this.

NickB

Hi.  This would be a great additional feature and would add the much needed collaboration facility within comments.

KLisk

Huge need for this - Jira, Asana, Google, Wrike(?) - they all support this, Smartsheet is behind the ball on it. 

dhowell

+1,000,000

Any updates?