#188 — List comments in reverse order

I need to present the comments in a conversation in reverse order, i.e. the most recent first. I think this is a much needed feature. I made a few modifications to the 2.0 code. Find the changes included below, just in case somebody needs it, or for the maintainers to merge. Please criticise or correct as needed.

Best regards and thank you for the great product.


Steps to get the functionality:

1. Modify

Add this at around line 109 ( new method in class ConversationView ):

    def comments_reverse(self):
        batchSize = 30
        batchStart = int(self.request.get('b_start', 0))
        numComments = self.context.getNumberOfComments()
        return Batch(self._getComments_reverse, numComments, batchSize, batchStart, orphan=1)

2. in ZMI, Customise portal_skins/ploneboard_templates/conversation_view and change:

    <div class="boardConversation"
         metal:define-macro="view_comments"
- tal:define="batch view/comments">
+ tal:define="batch view/comments_reverse">


Apparently, it is working fine in a production site at the moment, and it does with previous content too. I think it would be good to add an option to switch this on/off at the forum level.

Pablo.