File-level commenting

摘要

Various embodiments provide a commenting system for multiple users to provide and share comments to shared content items. For example, users can share a web link to a collection of content items, such as documents, spreadsheets, photos, and any other media, with other users stored in an online content management system. To enable such functionality, the online content management system can expose an application programming interface to enable third-party service providers to develop and attach a comment interface to content items. Accordingly, such a commenting system can provide a comment interface for concurrent display alongside a respective content item in which users can provide comments to shared content items or to use as notes for their personal content items.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,
providing a content item for display on a first computing device, the content item being viewable between the first computing device and at least one second computing device through an account with an online content management system, with the account being accessible via the first computing device and the at least one second computing device;providing a comment interface associated with the content item for concurrent display with the content item, the comment interface interfacing with the content item through an application programming interface (API) provided by the online content management system; andin response to a comment provided to the comment interface on the first computing device, synchronizing the comment with both the first computing device and the at least one second computing device, wherein synchronizing the comment results in a copy of the comment being attached to both the content item stored by the first computing device and the content item stored by the at least one second computing device, and wherein the synchronizing does not alter data in the content item stored on either the first computing device or the at least one second computing device, and wherein the comment provided to the comment interface is received through the API.