Why do comments in the collab demo disappear when associated text is cut and pasted?

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Is this an inherent limitation or just a “feature” of the demo? when for instance bold text is cut and pasted it stays bold.

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Comments, when implemented as marked ranges as the demo does, are part of the document metadata, not the document itself. As such, they aren’t copied to the clipboard when you copy a piece of content.

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I see. Would you have a suggestion for how to implement “cut and pastable” comments or other metadata associated with ranges of text? More specifically I am looking for ways to associate attributes (fx author name, signatures dates etc) with ranges of text. I would like to be able to create the association by marking the text and selecting the associated attribute.

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You could use regular, in-document marks. Though that might have some properties, such as being able to split a piece of marked text by inserting something inside of it, that are also not what you want.

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Thanks I will give that a try. The splitability should be manageable I think.