About
The Comments module enables interactive discussions on media entries. By activating this feature, you can allow authorized users to add new comments, reply to existing ones, or delete comments when necessary.
Check out our Comments user guide.
Configure
1. Go to your Configuration Management page, and click on the Comments module. You can also navigate directly using a link: https://{your_KMS_URL}/admin/config/tab/comments.
The Comments page displays.
2. Configure the following:
enabled - Set to 'Yes' to enable the module
channelCommentsProfileId - Custom Metadata profile Id for channels.
entryCommentsProfileId - Custom Metadata profile Id for entries.
entryCommentsCountProfileId - Custom Metadata profile Id for entry comments count.
commentsAllowed - Choose who can add comments by checking the following options:
- viewerRole
- privateOnlyRole
- adminRole
- unmoderatedAdminRole
pageSize - Choose the number of comments that can be displayed from the dop-down options:
- 10
- 25
- 50
sort - Choose whether to sort comments by newest or oldest first.
allowClose - Set to 'Yes' to allow content owners to disable/close comments for particular entries. When set to 'No', owners that had their comments disabled, will not be able to reactivate them.
showInGalleries - Set to 'Yes' to enable showing public comments for entries in context of galleries.
showInChannelsOnly - Set to 'Yes' if you want to show comments on media entries to users only in the context of a channel/gallery. In this case, users will not be able to see media comments if browsing to the media from search results, My Media or any other context that doesn't include the context of the channel/gallery.
showAddTimedCommentsCheckbox - Set to 'Yes' to show Add comment at mm:ss checkbox (shown in the image below) to allow viewers to add a comment at a specific point in the video.
showPrivateCommentsConfig - Set to 'Yes' to allow channel/gallery managers to set comments as private; comments will only show in the context of this channel/gallery.
3. Click Save.
User experience
The image below shows the Comments box located beneath a media entry. Users can type a comment and click 'Add' to post it to the media page, as well as read comments from other viewers.
