Toggling the commenting pane on and off

The commenting pane is disabled by default and this task shows you how to enable this feature. SDL does not recommend that this feature is enabled for a production environment since you cannot manage or delete comments.

About this task

Commenting is not fully completed, as there is no mechanism for managing or deleting comments. When this feature is complete in a future release it will consist of the following parts:
  • UGC service in Content Delivery
  • UGC related client API's in the Content Delivery CIL
  • ISH UGC module in the Reference Implementation
  • A commenting pane UI in the Reference Implementation
  • A commenting management dashboard UI available in the Web Client

The commenting management dashboard is the component that is not yet part of this release and the reason we disabled the commenting pane.

Procedure

  1. On the Reference Implementation web server find and open the configuration file, ishconfig.properties for editing.
    This file has a list of active features, active.features=, that is by default empty. Currently commenting is the only feature that can be enabled or disabled using this list.
  2. Add commenting to this list by editing this list to: active.features=commenting
  3. Save the configuration file (ishconfig.properties).
  4. Restart your Apache tomcat server.

Results

Now that you have enabled the commenting pane in the configuration, you should see a commenting pane UI is found at the bottom of every topic displayed in your Reference Implementation web application. SDL does not recommend the use of this feature in a production system, as there is currently no way to manage or delete comments left on your site.

What to do next

Later, if you wish to toggle the commenting pane off, then you need to set the list of active features to empty in the configuration file ishconfig.properties, save this file, and restart the web service.