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Any idea of a timescale for this? Even indicative: this year, next year, would be useful.

Although not a complete solution, it's worth noting that you can partially achieve this using the new Advanced Drive service:

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/advanced/drive

The Drive API provides access to the comments on a file and their replies. The only thing this API doesn't provide is context as to where the document the comment is, and the ability to create new comments tied to a specific block of text.

Just adding comments to documents without context is largely useless. We've had multiple requests for features around this (especially from the education market). It would be a great addition.

I would really appreciate this feature. Also, I'd like to reiterate Chris's question. Is there an idea of when this could possibly be implemented? Even something as broad as "within 1 year", "within 5 years", or "never" would be nice to know.

My organization would get a lot of benefit out of this. Please consider it ASAP.

Can we get an idea if this is ever going to happen? Are there every going to be any substantial updates to enhance app script functionality? Or should we just give up hope?

One of my customer asked me the same thing this week, and while investigating, I think there is a workaround :

Comments are reachable from Google Drive APIs (read/write) https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/comments. So, I suggest you to follow this example where Google shows how to use Google APIs from Apps Script (https://plus.google.com/u/0/102922870851314983585/posts/PYGNm2sw8zW?cfem=1)

Hope this helps

Hi Jo,
Thanks. If you read the previous comments this has already been suggested and dismissed as not very useful as the comments cannot be linked to a position in the document.

To follow up on this and echo earlier comments - I AM A TEACHER - I WANT THIS, PLEASE!!

I have also developed two reasonably well used google app addon's and can see several others I could use if I could have this feature.

I want to be able to track my comments (marking) of student work, so I can see at a glance on either a site or sheet when I last marked work and what comments I made.  I also what to see if the students have responded to those comments.

I can see so much support coming from Google for education and it is fantastic.  However there could be further help from the community, if we could get to the parts of the API we need.  There is comments for SITES, can we have it for all other tools as well.

I would also appreciate if something like this would be added to the Drive API.

Being able to add comments to a specific area of a google doc would be a killer feature.

Google's comments API has not been changed since 2012, please add ability to create comments in Google docs via API.

+1 we are still looking to anchor the comments to Google Documents as well.

+1 for the anchored comments to google documents

+1 for the anchored comments to google documents

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