MySQL Bugs: #73722: Comments on diagram

Bug #73722	Comments on diagram
Submitted:	26 Aug 2014 7:45	Modified:	1 Feb 2018 9:27
Reporter:	Richard Eagleton	Email Updates:
Status:	Verified	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: Modeling	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	6.3.10	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The system currently has table/column comments and text boxes that can be placed on the diagram as completely separate functionality.

I would like to be able to either,
- Optionally add table and/or column comments to the diagram (preferably on a case-by-case basis to avoid cluttering the diagram with too many comments)
- Optionally link a text box with a table/column comment so that they are always in sync.

Either of these would make it much easier rather than having to maintain the same info in two separate places.

How to repeat:
Add a comment to an existing entity in the diagram. Although it appears in a tooltip, there is no way to have that comment appear in the diagram itself short of copying and pasting it to a text box.

Would it be suitable if note objects could display the comment field from another object?

That should be fine but only if the notes object is automatically kept up to date with any changes to the comment field in the original object.

Ideally, it would also be great if you could edit the notes object and have the changes reflected in the comments field of the object too.

Thank you for the feature request.