With Teamup Calendar, you can enable comments for individual events. Event comments can serve many purposes: discussion of event details, monitoring progress on a project, obtaining feedback, or saving internal notes.
This article discusses using event comments with Teamup in a browser. For help using comments on the Teamup app, see this article.
Enable event comments
Administrators can enable comments for all events by default.
To enable (or disable) comments for an individual event:
- Click on an event to open the event editor.
- Click Options > Comments:
- Turn the toggle to green/✓ to enable comments.
- Select who can add/view comments: All users or Users with modify permission.
- Click Done > Save. Once saved, users can comment and view existing comments on the specific events.
Who can view comments
Carefully consider the options for who can view comments.
To use comments as internal or private notes that should not be visible to all users, choose Users with modify permission and limit the modify permission to those regarded as internal users. To use comments as a place for more public discussion, choose All users.
Add and view comments
Once the Comment feature is enabled, users can add and view comments in the event viewer/editor, and on the event page.
Successive comments will be listed in chronological order. Only the calendar administrator or those with modify access can delete comments.
- Click Add Comment and type in the comment field, then tap the blue button to send the comment.
- The toolbar provides text formatting and uploading options for event comments.
- Tap the three-dot menu to Edit or Delete a comment (only available for users with modify access).
- Event comments are automatically time-stamped. The time stamp is visible below each comment on the right side. Hover over a time stamp to see a pop-up with the full date and time.
Upload files to a comment
The comment editor has a toolbar for formatting text and uploading files (shown above).
- Click the Image icon to link to the source URL of an image or file.
- Click the Dropbox icon to insert a file stored on Dropbox.
- Click the Upload Arrow icon to upload a file.
Comments on event pages
When event comments are enabled, they will also appear when sharing an event as a web page:
Configure event comments
The calendar administrator can configure the event comments field:
- Open Teamup in a browser.
- Go to Settings > Event Fields.
- Click the pencil icon next to the Event Comments field.
- Use the toggle to make event comments active or inactive.
- If comments are made inactive here (toggled off), users will not be able to enable them on individual events.
- Check the box to event comments enabled by default for all newly created events.
- If event comments are active but not enabled by default, users will be able to enable comments on individual events.
- If event comments are active and enabled by default, comments will be shown on all events by default; users can disable the comments on individual events.
To rearrange where the comments section appears on events: In Settings > Event Fields, use the arrows (next to the edit button) to move the comments section up or down as desired.
How you could use event comments
- Field crews are often given read-only access to scheduled jobs. A crew member may now add a note to the event to update the job status or when the job is done.
- Participants of conference calls may be invited to post ideas or feedback related to the specific conference call without submitting all that information via email.
- School or community events may call for volunteers or resource contributions from the community. Interested parties may respond or sign up directly in the event comments section.
- Many more examples and ideas here.