METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY PROCESSING COMMENTS TO RECORDS IN A DATABASE, WHILE AVOIDING REPLICATION/SAVE CONFLICTS

A system for processing comment contents associated with a parent document by providing a parent document user interface including a display object enabling a user to enter comment contents, creating a comment document associated with said parent document and storing said comment contents in said comment document, obtaining said comment contents from said comment document and displaying said comment contents within a region of said parent document user interface, copying, in response to detecting a change of state of said parent document from a state in which comments can be added to a state in which comments cannot be added, said comment contents from said comment document into said parent document, deleting said comment document, and presenting said comment contents after deleting said comment document.