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All you need to know about Commenting in SharePoint / Microsoft Lists
- Mar 03, 2021
This feature is available for SharePoint lists & Microsoft lists. It should be available in your tenant by default, unless someone from administration team disabled it.
If you want to enable this feature, you can do so using PowerShell. Check below article for more information & complete PowerShell commands:
How to Enable/Disable the commenting in SharePoint Online/Microsoft Lists
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mdoc7945 No. Visitor users cannot add comments on list items. User need edit permission to add/delete comments.
You can find more about permissions at: SharePoint Online: All you need to know about Commenting in Lists
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- jmuehlenbeinOct 17, 2022Copper Contributor
ganeshsanap, looks like this has changed...not sure when. Users with read-only permissions are now able to leave comments.
- ganeshsanapOct 18, 2022MVP
jmuehlenbein On our SharePoint tenant, users with read (visitors) permissions get this:
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- Jay_McWNov 17, 2022Copper ContributorComments are an awesome addition to lists! Is there functionality for including comments in modern search results? Maybe I'm not patient enough, but my search tests have not yielded any results for text strings left in comments.
- xiscorosJul 18, 2022Copper Contributor
Is there any provision for Microsoft to improve this point and an external user can be mentioned in a task?
It would be interesting because if an external user is invited for a task and can receive news, he should also be mentioned in a task comment if necessary.
Thanks a lot.- ganeshsanapJul 19, 2022MVP
xiscoros Unfortunately, I haven't heard any news about when Microsoft will allow mentioning for external users in list comments.
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