Magnolia CMS displays an activation dialog when you activate content in Website and Documents. The purpose of this dialog is to allow editors to write a comment for publishers. The comment is saved in the workitem and visible to publishers in their inbox. The dialog also allows you to schedule activation and deactivation to occur at a later time.

The activation comment is saved with the version so you can see what the version is about. If you disable the comment, the version history will lack detail and it is difficult to tell why a particular change was made.

While workflow comments are a great way of communicating between editors and publishers, in certain cases you do not want to display the dialog. You can disable and enable it separately for each workspace where activation workflow is used.

Website workspace

To disable the activation comment dialog in website workspace:

1. Go to Configuration > /modules/admininterface/trees/website.
2. Set the value of configurationClass to info.magnolia.module.admininterface.trees.WebsiteTreeConfiguration.

DMS workspace

To disable the activation comment dialog in dms workspace:

1. Go to Configuration > /modules/dms/trees/dms.
2. Set the value of configurationClass to info.magnolia.module.dms.DMSAdminTreeConfig.

Data workspace

The activation comment is disabled by default for all data types but you can enable it individaully for each type.

To enable it in the data workspace for example for contacts:

1. Go to Configuration > /modules/data/trees/Contacts.
2. Add a configurationClass data node and set the value to info.magnolia.module.data.trees.WorkflowDataAdminTreeConfig.