Commenting enables structured feedback and collaboration directly inside Frontify Guidelines. Leave contextual comments on pages, sections, or blocks, mention teammates, and resolve discussions, without switching to external tools.
What is Commenting?
Commenting allows editors, translators, and reviewers to give and receive feedback directly within guideline pages.
Instead of managing review cycles in Slack, email, or MS Teams, conversations are anchored to the exact content they refer to. This keeps feedback visible, structured, and actionable, all in one place.
Comments can be added inline and are organized in threads. You can reply, mention users, resolve discussions, and track open or resolved feedback through a centralized sidebar.
Key benefits
Structured collaboration directly inside Frontify
Contextual feedback at page, section, or block level
Clear overview of open and resolved discussions
Async collaboration across teams and time zones
Ability to gather feedback without granting edit rights
Faster and more confident publishing
Getting started
Who can use commenting?
Commenting is available to: Editors, Translators, Reviewers
Reviewers can fully participate in commenting but do not have editing rights.
Viewers and external users cannot see or interact with comments.
Adding a comment
Open a guideline page.
Click the comment entry point in the action toolbar.
Add your comment:
Page-level comment: Open the comment sidebar and ensure the page filter is active.
Section or block comment: Select the relevant section or block inline while commenting is active.
Write your comment and publish it.
A visual indicator (badge with count) will appear inline to show that open comments exist.
Managing discussions
Within a comment thread, you can:
Reply to comments
Mention users with autocomplete (@). You can mention any individual user who has access to the guideline (for example, members of an invited group).
Note: Mentioning entire groups is currently not supported in Guideline comments.
Edit or delete your own comments
Resolve threads once feedback is addressed
Copy a direct link to a thread
View by open, resolved, or all comments
All comments for a guideline or page can be viewed in a single sidebar overview.
In translation contexts, comments remain distinct and contextualized.
Notifications
Users receive email notifications when:
They are individually mentioned
Someone replies to their comment
Notification preferences can be configured globally or per guideline.
Currently, notifications are available via email only.
How it works
Comments are:
Anchored to specific content (page, section, or block level)
Visible only to users with commenting permissions
Clearly marked as open or resolved
Accessible via keyboard navigation
When navigating from an email notification, users are taken directly to the exact content location of the comment.
Mentions and groups
If a group (for example, a group of Editors) has access to a guideline, you can mention individual members of that group in comments.
This allows you to notify the right people directly and keep feedback targeted and actionable.
Mentioning entire groups (for example, @Marketing-Team) is currently not supported in Guideline comments. To involve multiple people, simply mention the relevant individuals in your comment.
Commenting is available only when themes are used.
Use cases
Reviewing guideline updates before publishing
Proof-reading and clarifying content
Async collaboration across distributed teams
Gathering stakeholder feedback without granting edit rights
Tracking and resolving structured feedback
Managing translation-related discussions
Known limitations
Commenting is only available for guidelines using themes.
Notifications are currently email-based only.