Package: quintagroup.plonecomments
IntroductionPlone Comments (quintagroup.plonecomments) is a Plone product developed
to improve the site managers and editors experience with standard
commenting mechanism in Plone.FeaturesPlone Comments allows to:Notify admin about comment postedNotify commentator about his comment aprovalNotify author of parent comment about new follow up addedModeration of comments, approval of commentsAnonymous commentingAdded Name field to comment form, it is required for anonymous commentsArticle author can be notified about new comment after the approval by reviewerList of recent comments for more comfortable moderationPlone Comments Configlet allows:Turning on/off ModerationTurning on/off Manager notificationTurning on/off Editor notificationTurning on/off Anonymous CommentingConfigure admin e-mail for notificationsConfigure notification subjectPlone Comments can be integrated with Plone Captchas (requires quintagroup.plonecaptchas to be installed)NotesComments moderation is implemented with involvement of two stage workflow.
Comments are created in “private” state and visible only to DiscussionManager
group of users.To differentiate between logged-in (registered) commentors and Anonymous
commentors that pretend to be one person or other one, we use Boldness of
name. The Comment author is in bold when posted by logged in member. The
names provided when posting Anonymously are in plain text.Notification subject control allows to enter custom prefix to distinct
notifications coming from different sites.UsageOne of possible UseCases:Moderation is enabled and authors notification is turned on.New comment posted in private state.Notification is sent to the emails entered in Plone Comments configlet.Moderator User with DiscussionManager role see the comment.The comment can be deleted or published on modaration stage.When comment is published notification is sent to Article Editor.LinksGet latest development version from “SVN”:http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/quintagroup.plonecomments/trunkWatch Plone Comments Screencasthttp://quintagroup.com/cms/screencasts/plone-commentsto learn how to install and set up Plone Comments on your buildout-based Plone instance for Plone 3.2 or above. You will also find one of the possible use cases of using Plone Comments Plone add-on included.Watch Plone Comments Use Cases Screencasthttp://quintagroup.com/cms/screencasts/plone-comments/use-casesto learn about integration of Plone Comments with Plone Captchas, see 2 examples of possible use cases: anonymous and registered users commenting.RequirementsPlone 4Plone 3.xAuthorsThe product is developed and maintained byhttp://quintagroup.comteam.Volodymyr CherepanyakAndriy MylenkyyMykola KharechkoVitaliy StepanovRoman KozlovskyiContributorsGerry Kirk: product translations improvement and proofreadingDorneles Tremea: code cleanup and generic setup portingAndreas Stocker: German translationHéctor Velarde: Spanish translationBenjamin Klups: French translationKees Hink: Dutch translationErico Andrei: Portuguese translationOlha Pelishok: Ukraininan translationInstallationIf you are using zc.buildout and the plone.recipe.zope2instance
recipe to manage your project, you can do this:Addquintagroup.plonecommentsto the list of eggs to install, e.g.:[buildout]
...
eggs =
    ...
    quintagroup.plonecommentsTell the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe to install a ZCML slug:[instance]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
...
zcml =
    quintagroup.plonecomments
    quintagroup.plonecomments-overridesRe-run buildout, e.g. with:$ ./bin/buildoutRestart the Zope server, for example, with the following command in the terminal:$ ./bin/instance restartInstall quintagroup.plonecomments via ZMI portal_setup. Selectquintagroup.plonecommentsfrom the list of available profiles and pressImport all steps.Atention: If you are using a Plone versionbefore3.1 you need to install
“plone.browserlayer”:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.browserlayer(which also
requires a “GenericSetup”:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.GenericSetupversion
greater than 1.4) in your Plone site. It shows up asLocal browser layer supportin the Plone Add-on Products Control Panel.UninstallationTo uninstall quintagroup.plonecomments - selectquintagroup.plonecomments uninstallprofile from the list of available profiles and pressImport all steps.Changelog4.1.9 (2013-01-16)Added Romanian translation [ichimdav]Fixed classifiers and keywords [kroman0]Fixed code for pep8 [kroman0]4.1.8 (2011-10-28)Fixed registration import steps,http://plone.org/products/plone-comments/issues/9[vmaksymiv]4.1.7 (2011-06-05)Update pt_br translations [cleberjsantos,agnogueira]fix problem with no “login_action” in plone 4 [enkidu]4.1.6 (2011-02-18)Fixed discussion_edit_form validators #12 [zjs2k,kroman0]Updated french translation [Benjamin Klups,kroman0]Updated Italian translation #10 [micecchi,kroman0]Added svn:ignore .mo files [kroman0]Merged last fixes from branches/jquery [kroman0]Updated german translation [olha]4.1.5 (2010-08-20)Fixed issue #7 [kroman0]Removed tabindex support [kroman0]4.1.4 (2010-06-29)Fixed MANIFEST.in [kroman0]Error in Italian translation corrected [olha]4.1.3 (2010-06-04)Fixed issues #2 & #3http://plone.org/products/plone-comments/issues[kroman0]Added icon_expr for qPloneComments configlet and anchor for comments [kroman0]Fixed tests, validating email & validation scripts parameters, configlet & report_abuse_template templates [kroman0]Fixed AjaxReportAbuse for anonymous [kroman0]Fixed email message charset in Plone4 & global variables in templates for Plone4 [kroman0]Fixed InitializeClass and md5 for Plone4(python2.6) [kroman0]Fixed target url for discussion_publish_comment [kroman0]Fixed MailHostb secureSend call [kroman0]Fixed translations and pt-br locale [kroman0]4.1.2 (2010-01-27)Fixed auto focus in commenting form [kroman0]Updated the image thumb logic [mylan]‘Enable Manager moderation’ condition rolled back [kroman0]Captcha removed from comment edit form [kroman0]4.1.1 (2009-11-09)Hide ‘Recent comments’ tab and ‘Enable Manager moderation’
checkbox for manager [crchemist]4.1.0 (2009-08-11)Added “report abuse” feature contributed by jcbrand.
[liebster]Added edit comment functionality
[mylan]Updated comments viewlet - now comment form present
without needing to push on ‘Add comment’ button.
[mylan]4.0.1 (2009-06-05)Fixed links in the email messages. [liebster]4.0.0 (2009-04-06)Plone 3.* compatibility release [liebster]3.2.1 (unreleased)Added uninstall configlet and skinsConverted a i18n layout to a locales layout3.1.2 (unreleased)Fixed to use the username as the comment creator. That’s necessary whenever
the user is authenticated. This fixes the problems where commenters weren’t
receiving any notifications.
[deo]3.1.1 (2008-09-19)Fixed bug in registration of product also as a package. [liebster]3.1.0 (2008-08-28)Added pt-br translation.
[erico_andrei]ConvertedExtension/Install.py`into a complete GenericSetup profile.
[deo]Added note about thebrowser.layerdependency for Plone 3.0.x.
[deo]Updated tests to run with Plone 3.x.
[deo]General code cleanup and modernization.
[deo]Synchronized the discussion templates to match Plone 3.x versions.
[deo]