Enabling the commenting feature

Dynamic Documentation's commenting feature lets external visitors leave and reply to comments in a commenting pane UI. It also gives administrators access to a commenting dashboard from Content Manager Web Client for managing comments.

About this task

The commenting feature has two user interfaces to enable:
  • The commenting pane in Dynamic Documentation.
  • The commenting dashboard in the Web Client.
This task explains how to enable or disable the commenting pane in Dynamic Documentation. For enabling or disabling the Web Client's commenting dashboard, you need to ask SDL Support for assistance.

Procedure

  1. On the Dynamic Documentation web server find and open the ishconfig.properties configuration file for editing.

    This file has a section where active features are listed with the parameter active.features. Currently commenting is the only feature that can be enabled or disabled using this list.

  2. Depending on what you want to achieve:
    • Add commenting to enable: active.features=commenting
    • Remove commenting to disable: active.features=
  3. Save the ishconfig.properties configuration file.
  4. Restart your Apache tomcat server.

Results

You know that hte feature is disabled in Dynamic Documentation if no commenting pane appears at the bottom of every topic.