I have been working on a dexterity based plone application. I have created a couple of new types. This is what I did to activate comments on a specific dexterity content type named "activity_report":
In Plone Control Panel
In the Discussion section I enabled the following:
In the Types Section I chose the "Activity Report" type from the drop down and enabled the "Allow comments" option.
On the file system
In the FTI file activityreport.xml:
<property name="allow_discussion">True</property>
I have restarted the instance and even reinstalled the product, but I can not activate the comments section in the dexterity type.
It is worth mentioning that a standard type (ex. Page) can have the discussion module activated.
Is there something I am missing?
plone.app.discussion currently disables commenting for all containers (see https://dev.plone.org/ticket/11245 for discussion).
I used a monkey patch like the following in one project to short-circuit the normal check and make sure that commenting was enabled for my folderish content type:
from Acquisition import aq_inner
from Products.highcountrynews.content.interfaces import IHCNNewsArticle
from plone.app.discussion.conversation import Conversation
old_enabled = Conversation.enabled
def enabled(self):
parent = aq_inner(self.__parent__)
if parent.portal_type == 'my_portal_type':
return True
return old_enabled(self)
Conversation.enabled = enabled
where 'my_portal_type' is, of course, the portal_type you want commenting enabled for.