Cannot apply comments to measurement markups

Hi.

I've been banging my head against this one for a long time and it seems to be an intended feature.

For all of my measurement markups, it seems like I can't add or modify comments. It will only prepopulate the comments field based on what I select to show in caption under properties.

In practice what this means for me is that I will make a length measurement markup labeled WB-1 (for baseboard), only select label to be shown in the caption, and it will reference the WB-1 in the comments field as well.

I already have a label field for this, why does it burn an entire column with the same redundant information? I understand that I can make a custom field for actual comments but that field wouldn't be tied to the comment functionality in Bluebeam (i.e. doubleclicking the markup for easy access).

Any help is appreciated

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Doug McLean

Pretty sure this is because Comments is field used within the Toolchests and thus needs to be somewhat controlled.
I would create a
Notes column, or whatever, and hide the Comments column in the Markups list.

Thomas Luedke

Thanks, Doug.

Can you elaborate on how I would make use of the comments column via the toolchests?

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