Managing Comments

Recite CMS allows you to add commenting functionality to your web site. This means you can allow people to submit comments about content on your site.

For example, if you want to publish a blog (using the calendar events functionality of Recite CMS), you can allow your readers to submit comments for each of your blog posts.

Comments are organised into a series of groups. If you want to add commenting to calendar events, you would create a comments group specifically for holding those comments. In that case, all comments (regardless of the event they belong to) are stored in the same group.

Each comment group can have a different list of required fields. This means for calendar event comments the submit form will have one set of fields, while submitting comments for a page might have a different set of fields.

Getting Started

There are two Control Panel widgets available to help you manage comment groups. These are as follows:

• Comment Groups Listing. This widget shows all comment groups in the site. Click on a comment group to open it in the comment group viewer.

• Comment Group Viewer. This widget is used to view and manage the details of a single comment group. You can't add this widget manually - it is automatically loaded when you click on a group in the comment groups listing.

You can either add the comment group listing widget manually (it can be found in the Comments Management category in the widget browser), or you can create a new tab using the Comments pre-defined layout.

The following figure demonstrates this layout. This tab is a two-column layout with a wide right-hand column. In the left column is the Comment Groups View widget, while in the right column is the Comment Group Viewer widget.

Figure 8.1. Sample tab layout for managing comments

For the purposes of this chapter, I'll assume you're working with a tab having the same layout as the pre-built Comments tab.