Aligni Discussions are chronological lists of events and commentary related to a specific record. Discussions are supported in multiple areas of the application where collaboration and event logging are helpful. In particular, Aligni supports discussions in the following areas:
While the general behavior of discussions are universal across Aligni, we’d like to point out a few features and special behaviors.
Discussion Entries
Any collaborator with appropriate permission may post a comment to a discussion. Different records and modules in Aligni have different comment authorization criteria, so refer to the documentation for that module for details. Also note that comments support Markdown formatting to help you get your point across.
In most cases, a user may edit (or delete) a comment within 15 minutes of posting it. The administrator may make edits (or delete) for up to two days. These measures are provided reduce excess commenting due to “second thoughts” and to provide administrators a bit more flexibility to update or censor discussions.
Events
Many event activities related to the parent record are also posted to the discussion and attributed to a collaborator, when appropriate.
Special Events
Some events related to a particular discussion are of more significant importance and are styled to stand out a bit. For example, build events such as Build Finalized are styled to be slightly more recognizable for quick scanning.
Approval Workflow
Approval workflow events are also considered to be important and styled to stand out.
Votes
Discussions attached to ECR or ECO allow participants to vote thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or undecided. This voting activity has no bearing on the ECR/O itself, but it does offer collaborators a convenient way to set a persistent position related to the record and to see how others have voted at-a-glance.