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Begin of the insertion### **Acceptance criteria**

* Administration: there are new role permissions:

* View confidential comments

* Write confidential comments

* Edit own confidential comments

* Edit others' confidential comments (for moderation)

* When I write a comment, I can choose to make it confidential

* When I make my comment confidential (via a checkbox, for example), show a note that makes it clear what this means (i.e, that its visibility is limited to users with the requisite permissions)

* There should be a strong visual code that reassures me that my comment _will_ in fact be confidential, to avoid any chance that I accidentally write a confidential comment publicly.

* If a note is confidential, it is easily distinguishable from other comments (that are public) so I can be reassured that a comment is indeed confidential


* The comment should appear in a different background colour and the label "confidential" should be clearly present

* Notifications: Confidential notes will also appear in the notification center just like comments if I have access to them

* Same with email notifications

* It should not be possible to @mention users who will not be able to view the confidential note (i.e, the dropdown needs to exclude users without the requisite permissions)


### Open questions

* \[open\] Do we provide additional hints about who can see the message?

* Can we produce a list of all members (in the project) who have a certain permission (via their roles)? The idea would be to be able to display who exactly can see the confidential comment.

* \[open\] There is a project setting to enable or disable confidential notes.

* Eg. public projects can have it enabled by default, private projects can have them disabled by default.

* Migration: what if a work package is moved from a project that has confidential notes enabled to one that has it disabled?

* Proposition: Information cannot be lost, perhaps display existing but not allow the creation of new until feature is enabled in project?


### Out of scope

* The ability to specify a custom scope per confidential note (eg. selecting individual users or groups)


### Phrasing and translation

Preferred term in English: **Confidential**. 

Unlike "private", which can imply something personal and thus could potentially be understood as something personal and possibly even unrelated to work, "confidential" implies that the subject matter is not to be disclosed outside of a certain context.

(Other alternatives that were considered: Private, Internal, Restricted)

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###End of the insertion **Example use case:**

* A client or partner should have access to a work package to collaborate Begin of the insertionclosely.End of the insertion Begin of the deletion closeley.End of the deletion However this partner should not have access to all information.