[Feature+Request] Support the Review Panel in Overleaf

[truthlive]

Disclaimer

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• The request feature has not been addressed in the feature request list.
• The design of the feature does not require detailed discussion, or existing discussion with drawn conclusion can be found in Discussions Area at: Support the Review Panel in Overleaf #64

Motivation

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• When working on the latex document with multiple collaborators on Overleaf, they usually provide many comments directly on the Review Panel of Overleaf. Since the extension does not display these infos in VScode, we have to open the Overleaf website separately to view and address their comments, which is not convenient. It would be helpful for the extension to support the review panel so that we can directly address the comments in VScode.

Feature Description

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• Fetch the comments from the Review Panel and provide a clear visualization of these information in VScode.
• In the latex document, the commented/added/deleted section can be highlighted with colors and labeled with some icon besides the line number.
• The comments can be displayed along with the corresponding commented section. A simple implementation would be like a "spell check feature" with comments listed in the problem panel.
• Ideally, we can also address the comments and reply to the collaborators directly from VScode.

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• Applicable Overleaf Edition: Official / Community / Enterprise (Server Pro)
• Applicable Extension Range: Desktop Extension / Web Extension

[CS123n]

May I ask when we can merge this feature?

[iamhyc]

May I ask when we can merge this feature?

Sorry, I am not currently on it, and the priority will be after issues #180 #183 .

There is still some work needs to be done and verified for the "tracked change" feature. The "review comments" part is workable on the current 94-review-panel branch, you can check it if you are interested.

[CS123n]

Thank you for your excellent work. Why not merge the "review comments" part now? The "tracked changes" feature isn’t available to regular users like me.

[iamhyc]

Thank you for your excellent work. Why not merge the "review comments" part now? The "tracked changes" feature isn’t available to regular users like me.

Cause the UI is quite ugly, I thought I could have it done quickly but my premium trial expired ...
Anyway, I will be back on it this weekend. If things goes well, we can have a new release recently.

[SunJianier]

I will have installed temporary extension why is the review still not displayed automatically. Are there any additional operations that need to be done.

[krokosik]

I also cannot see the comments, only the highlights in the editor and pen icons. Toggling review mode does nothing. I have access to this mode and I am potentially interested in helping to deliver the feature, but it is not clear to me what works and what does not.

[joaomoura24]

First, great vscode plugin. When working on the overleaf with track on, I noticed that all the changes from vscode do not appear in the tracking back in overleaf. Is this feature something you will be working on in the future? Even without the panel in vscode, having the changes being reflected as track on back in overleaf is useful when working with others. Thank you for the effort of making this plugin available.