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Add and resolve comments on diagrams

You can add comments to diagrams, reply to and resolve comments on draw.io diagrams attached to pages in Atlassian Confluence Cloud, Data Center and Server instances, as well as comments on diagram files stored in Google Drive.

Comments work the same way in Confluence Cloud as on Data Center and Server.

View comments​

  1. Click on a diagram in a Confluence page to open it in the draw.io lightbox viewer.
  2. Hover over the diagram in the lightbox to see the toolbar, then click on the Comments tool (it looks like a speech bubble).
    Hover over the diagram in the draw.io lightbox to see the toolbar, then click on the comment tool to open the Comments dialog

By default, only open, unresolved comments will be shown.

When you are editing the page in Confluence, you'll see a small comment icon on the draw.io macro indicating there is an unresolved comment on this diagram.
In the page editor in Confluence, comments on diagrams will show as a small comment icon at the bottom of the draw.io diagram macro

Add a comment​

Click on Create (+) at the bottom of the Comments dialog, enter your comment in the text field, then click Save.
Add a comment to a draw.io diagram attached to a page in Confluence via the Comment dialog

Edit and delete comments​

Under each saved comment are some options - you can Edit and Delete your own comments.

Reply to a comment​

You can reply to comments too. Click on Reply, enter your comment and click Save. Replies will be nested.
Reply to a comment on a diagram stored in Google Drive via the draw.io editor

Resolve comments​

Click on Resolve under the comment (or thread) you want to resolve. It will disappear from the list of open comments. To see all comments, click on the tick button at the bottom of the Comment dialog. Resolved comments are not displayed in the diagram viewer.

Click on Reopen if you want to reopen a comment thread.
Click on the tick icon in the Comment dialog to see the resolved comments.