Leaving feedback

A pin attaches a thread to one element on the page, such as a button, a heading or a table row. Anyone who opens the thread later sees it on that element.

Start a pin

You can start a pin in four ways:

• Press C anywhere on the page. Skyelight ignores the key while you’re typing in a field.
• Click Drop a pin in the side panel.
• Right-click and choose Pin with Skyelight.
• Select some text, right-click and choose Pin selected text with Skyelight.

A crosshair appears. Click the element you mean, and the composer opens next to it on the page. Press Esc at any point to cancel. The page doesn’t receive the keypress.

Highlight to pin

Drag across text on the page and release. The composer opens on your selection and quotes it, the same as Pin selected text with Skyelight.

Highlight to pin starts only when all of these are true:

• The side panel is open in that window.
• You’re signed in with a workspace selected, and no composer, thread or crosshair is open.
• You dragged. A click, double-click or triple-click doesn’t start a pin.
• The selection is at least two characters and isn’t in a form field, an editable region or Skyelight’s own interface.

Workspace owners and admins can turn off Highlight to pin for everyone in Configure Pins & Comments.

Write the thread

Type your comment in the composer. You can @-mention people in the workspace and paste images.

A chip beside Send suggests the thread’s type: bug, idea, feedback or one of your workspace’s own types. It shows Auto until you’ve written a few words, then updates as you type. Open the chip to see how confident the suggestion is and to pick a different type. Once you pick a type, the chip stops suggesting. See Classification.

If you close the composer before sending, Skyelight keeps your text and the chip’s type as a draft on that site. The draft comes back the next time you open the composer.

Reply to a thread

Open any marker, or any thread in the side panel, and write your reply under the thread. Replies belong to the thread’s element and don’t get their own marker.

Move a pin to another element

When a page changes, a pin can end up on the wrong element, or lose its element and show as detached. The thread’s author and workspace admins can drag the marker onto the right element.

After a move, the thread keeps its original screenshot and page context as a record of what was captured, and notes that they predate the move. If the site uses Skyelight Build, the thread’s source file changes to the new element’s.