Performance commentaries provide measure owners with an opportunity to explain the reasons behind a measure or initiative’s performance or to comment about performance. You enter performance commentaries through the dashboard.

You must have commentary entry rights for a measure and location pair to enter measure commentary. With these rights, you can also add commentary to initiatives which belong to the measure and location. In addition, an administrator, measure owner, or measure owner assistant can always add commentary for initiatives which belong to the measure and location pair.

Metrics Management 10 introduces percentage-based font sizes in commentary text. Percentage-based font sizes increase when the font size is increased for a dashboard cell maximized for display purposes. Commentary formatted in previous versions of Metrics Management using point-based font sizes remains static when dashboard fonts are increased. Metrics Management supports defining the commentary text font size as 80%, 100%, or 120%.

Lengthy commentaries degrade the performance of dashboards. If your commentary is longer than one page, add text as an attachment, rather than as commentary.