How to show comments according to user role?

Question

Using a grid I display several rows of comments on a form. The requirement is that users should be able to see only their comments or final approval/rejection comments. They should not have visibility to the comments for the different approval flows. The current solution is showing every comment in a grid. Is there any way I can restrict the visibility of approval flow comments? Any recommendations? TIA

Mike Schmitt · Answer

I hope you have a hierarchy of groups set up that generally define a user's role(s). In this way it's pretty straightforward to use on-form logic to check whether the viewing user is in certain group(s). Then you'd use additional on-form logic to simply decide whether different columns (or different comment types, presuming you have a systematic way to differentiate them) are shown for members of different groups.