Enabling user comments

Greenstone 2 and 3 both support allowing users to add comments to individual documents. A user merely needs to have an account on that Greenstone DL in order to leave comments on any accessible document, and need not have collection editing permissions on that or any collection.

For each collection, you can decide whether to allow user comments to be added to its documents or not. By default this ability is turned off. To turn it on for any collection:

Greenstone3

  • Open the collection in GLI and go to Format panel > Format Features
  • Select the display format feature and set the value of the allowUserComments gsf:option to true, or add the option if not already present.
    <gsf:option name="allowUserComments" value="true"/>
  • If you had already built the collection, you can Preview it straight away. Any document page in the collection should provide a link in green at the bottom labelled Add Comment. If you're not already logged in, you will be taken to a log in screen and, once authenticated, you can proceed to add a comment. Once you're done leaving comments, you can press the green Logout link.

Greenstone2

  • Open the collection in GLI and go to Format panel > Format Features
  • Under Choose Feature, select Allow User Comments
  • Press the Add Format button
  • Tick the Enabled button
  • If you had already built the collection, you can Preview it straight away. Any document page in the collection should provide a link in green at the bottom labelled Add Comment. If you're not already logged in, you will be taken to a log in screen and, once authenticated, you can proceed to add a comment. Once you're done leaving comments, you can press the green Logout link.

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