Forum OpenACS Q&A: general comments starter question

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1: general comments starter question
Posted by Pavel Boghita on 10/29/03 07:36 PM
I have general-comments enabled on my practice site. At the moment 'add a comment' appears as it should for the users who are logged in. I want for the 'add comment' bit to be diplayed for everyone and clicking on the link to take the user to the login page.
Is there a way to do this apart from tweaking the code ? If tweaking is the only option how should this be done?

Thanks

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2: Re: general comments starter question (response to 1)
Posted by Pavel Boghita on 10/29/03 08:22 PM
I had a look through the item.adp in news package and the bit that displays 'add comment' is defined as an if statement:

<if @comment_link@ ne "">
....etc....

what does 'ne' stand for ?

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3: Re: general comments starter question (response to 1)
Posted by Jade Rubick on 10/29/03 08:25 PM
Not equal :)
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4: Re: general comments starter question (response to 2)
Posted by bill kellerman on 10/29/03 08:26 PM
not equal
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5: Re: general comments starter question (response to 4)
Posted by Tilmann Singer on 10/29/03 08:32 PM
This and much more is in the acs templating docs at /doc/acs-templating/ of your installation.
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6: Re: general comments starter question (response to 1)
Posted by Pavel Boghita on 10/29/03 09:03 PM
thanks for that, I'll go and read on this some more.

anyway, I modified item.tcl in ../package/news and took "set comment_link [general_comments_create_link $item_id ... etc...etc... outside its respective if statement, so it get evaluated no matter what.
I also commented out - set comment_link "" -  within the 'else'

this modification only seems to have done the trick as far as I am concerned.

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7: Re: general comments starter question (response to 6)
Posted by bill kellerman on 10/29/03 09:26 PM
when looking for examples, it can also be helpful to look at the code in cvs used for the openacs.org site itself.