Document Actions
Allow Discussion on Content
This How-to applies to:
Plone 2.1.x
This How-to is intended for:
Site Administrators
In Plone you can enable discussion by default on specific content types. To do this:
- Go to the Zope Management Interface
- Click on portal_types
- Click on the content type you want to enable discussion for.
- Check the "Allow Discussion?" property at the bottom of the form.
This will set the default to enable discussion for all instances of that content type in your site.
To explicitly override the current default, most content types have "Allow Discussion" options at the bottom of the edit form: set to "default", "enable," or "disable" as needed.
Users still not able to discuss things?
Check your security settings, starting at the portal root. A user needs the "Reply to item" permission to be able to actually reply to an item. You may want to turn this on for all Members, if this is not already done. You may also need to check the "Reply to item" permission at the folder level.
Comment only a few objects, not all of the kind
If you want to be able to comment only one object, not all of the kind, dive into the Python code is required.
After you create an object, which you want to comment, you need to add this line "obj.allow_discussion = True"
enabling Remove for Members/Reviewers
Can I enable it for Members or at least for "owners" who posted the discussion item? I'd like to be able to let people delete their own postings.
Thanks for your help
The allow discussion property does not exist for me...
I am running 2.5 and I do not see the "Allow Discussion" property you refer to.