DiscussionApp

A Comment is linked to the commented topic by the TopicRef field, which is either another Comment or a discussion. In addition every Comment points to the originating discussion using the BaseRef field. So while TopicRef referrs to the direct parent in a thread, BaseRef points to the root of it.

See also: CommentTemplate, WebPreferences, RenderAddComment

A dicussion can be added to a topic by adding %DISCUSS% to the end of a topic. You may add a Discussion TWikiForm to the topic to bring about an array of structured information to it. This is the case by default if you used the DiscussionFactory tool. The Discussion's form is derived from the normal TWikiTopic containing the TopicType and Summary fields. The Summary field is used to give the discussion a kind of description or headline. In addition it is a CategorizedTopic that allows to assign tags and categories to mark the discussion to be about a certain subject. Note, that all CategorizedTopics are retrievable in the WebTagCloud. Finally there are two properties of a Discussion that are unique to them, the Name and the State field. The Name field is initialized with the WikiName of the (registered) user that opened this discussion. This will be the person in charge to decide when to "close" a Discussion. This is done by changing the State from "open" to "close". Note, that you can only comment on open discussions while closed discussions will only display the comments collected so far. You may chose to open a discussion later on at any time.

See also: DiscussionTemplate, RenderDiscussion, RenderListOfDiscussions

A Comment is linked to the commented topic by the TopicRef field, which is either another Comment or a discussion. In addition every Comment points to the originating discussion using the BaseRef field. So while TopicRef referrs to the direct parent in a thread, BaseRef points to the root of it.

See also: CommentTemplate, WebPreferences, RenderAddComment

A dicussion can be added to a topic by adding %DISCUSS% to the end of a topic. You may add a Discussion TWikiForm to the topic to bring about an array of structured information to it. This is the case by default if you used the DiscussionFactory tool. The Discussion's form is derived from the normal TWikiTopic containing the TopicType and Summary fields. The Summary field is used to give the discussion a kind of description or headline. In addition it is a CategorizedTopic that allows to assign tags and categories to mark the discussion to be about a certain subject. Note, that all CategorizedTopics are retrievable in the WebTagCloud. Finally there are two properties of a Discussion that are unique to them, the Name and the State field. The Name field is initialized with the WikiName of the (registered) user that opened this discussion. This will be the person in charge to decide when to "close" a Discussion. This is done by changing the State from "open" to "close". Note, that you can only comment on open discussions while closed discussions will only display the comments collected so far. You may chose to open a discussion later on at any time.

See also: DiscussionTemplate, RenderDiscussion, RenderListOfDiscussions

Parameters

NONE

Css

• blogAddComment
• blogSubmitButton

This function renders a form to comment on a topic, that is on another comment or a posting. If you are logged in the fields "Name", "EMail" and "Url" will be populated with values taken from the user's profile.

See also: Comment, CommentTemplate, RenderNextCommentNr

This function will display all comments to the current discussion (BASEWEB.BASETOPIC) listing them recursively in a threaded way. As long as the discussion is open (State=open) a form will be appended to the page to allow to reply to the discussion. Note, that each comment itself is displayed similar to the discussion itself allowing the communication to proceed from that point independently.

See also: RenderComments, RenderAddComment

This function renders the head of a discussion, including its summary and how it is classified. It is called in a discussion view template and operates on the basetopic.

Parameters

NONE

This function renders the head of a discussion, including its summary and how it is classified. It is called in a discussion view template and operates on the basetopic.

Parameters

NONE

List a set of most recent comments

See also: RenderListOfDiscussions, Discussions

Parameters

• THEWEB: search in the given web, defaults to BASEWEB
• LIMIT: max nr of discussions to show, defaults to all

List all discussions with the given properties

Parameters

• STATE: either open or close, defaults to both
• CAT: extract discussions in the given Category, defaults to all
• THEWEB: search in the given web, defaults to BASEWEB
• REVERSE: on/off - sorting order, defaults to off
• LIMIT: max nr of discussions to show, defaults to all