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Why doesn't adding a comment to a sheet highlight the 'SAVE' button?

Paul Phillips
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edited 12/09/19 in Archived 2017 Posts

When I add a comment to a sheet, the "SAVE' button stays greyed out. ย This makes me think that comments won't be saved unless I do an additional action that enables the 'SAVE' button and then click the 'SAVE' button.

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  • Adam Overton
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    Comments are save immediately, so no save is required. The same is true for Reminders, Notifications, Sharing, Web Forms, etc.ย 

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    Save is really for the sheet itself. Sorry it isn't clear!

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  • Paul Phillips
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    Thanks for clarifying that. ย It wasn't obvious to me.

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  • Brad Jones
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    edited 04/04/17

    But wait... There's more!

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    Adding a comment (or attachment) does not count as a change to the sheet. ย Well, not the way you think it might.

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    If you change a comment on a row, this does not trigger the row variable "modified", which will flag when something in the cells has changed. ย As such, it does not prompt you to save the sheet. ย So from your visual perspective, you have changed something on the sheet, but from the system perspective you have not.

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    I'm not perfectly sure how they link the attachments and comments to the rows without linking them to sheet changes, but they do it somehow.

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