Comments are enabled by default for all preview deployments on all new projects. By default, only members of your Vercel team can contribute comments.
Content-Type. Additionally, on Next.js sites, the comments toolbar will only
render on Next.js pages and not on API routes or static files.
You can enable or disable comments at the account level with certain permissions:
- Navigate to your Vercel dashboard and make sure that you have selected your team from the team switcher.
- From your dashboard, open Settings in the sidebar.
- In the General section, find Vercel Toolbar.
- Under each environment (Preview and Production), select either On or Off from the dropdown to determine the visibility of the Vercel Toolbar for that environment.
- You can optionally choose to allow the setting to be overridden at the project level.
The dashboard setting to enable or disable the toolbar at the team level.
- From your dashboard, select the project you want to enable or disable Vercel Toolbar for.
- Navigate to General in Settings.
- Find Vercel Toolbar.
- Under each environment (Preview and Production), select either an option from the dropdown to determine the visibility of Vercel Toolbar for that environment. The options are:
- Default: Respect team-level visibility settings.
- On: Enable the toolbar for the environment.
- Off: Disable the toolbar for the environment.
The dashboard setting to enable or disable the toolbar in a project.
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At the session or interface level
With environment variables
To use comments in a production deployment, or link comments in your local development environment to a preview deployment, see our docs on using comments in production and localhost.
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See Managing the toolbar for more information.
You can enable or disable comments for specific branches or environments with preview environment variables.
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See Managing the toolbar for more information.
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To learn how to share deployments with comments enabled, see the Sharing Deployments docs.
