Workflow Step Add a Comment

Have you looked at the Workflow API Examples documentation? In there it shows you can use something as simple as:

page.Publish("Your comment here");

Maybe I'm oversimplifying it?

So there is no simple way to add the comment to the step like the standard "comment and approve" when you are in the visual workflow interface?

You had asked about custom workflow steps, so I had assumed you were using the API for this. You have options already built in for commenting within the UI. You just need to click the ellipse and it will give you that option on your custom workflow step.

Yes, ideally I am able to add another option to that list that says "Add a comment" that gives you the pop-up to add a comment just as the "Comment and submit for approval" option does, except it keeps it in the current workflow step.

So I'm seeing the whole picture now. Technically speaking in order to add a comment, you have to create a new version or advance/change the workflow position. So you'd need to add some other conditional workflow step that will handle this. Unfortunately it isn't the most elegant way of handling it but it is a way.

I'm certainly fine creating a new version, as long as I can keep it in the same step of the workflow still!

Again, you have to have another step in the workflow for this. There is no other way to add a comment without moving within the workflow step(s) and creating another version.