A Comments panel, which shows all comments. You can click on
the button in order to add your comment.
A My comment field. You type your comment here and hit
Ctrl+S or click the button to submit it. This is just a shortcut
for the button of the Comments panel.
In the Comments panel you can click on the time indication of a
comment in order to open the detail view of that particular comment. In this
view you can
Edit the comment (if you have permission to do so, which is
application-specific).
Pick an emotion. Emotions are a kind of minimlistic voting system about a
comment. Picking an emotion expresses your opinion about that comment. You can
change your opinion any time, but you can have only one opinion per comment.
The site maintainer can edit the list of available emotion icons.
comments: Letting users discuss¶The
commentsplugin adds functionality for letting site users discuss by writing comments.Overview¶
The detail window of a commentable database row usually has two widgets for commenting:
A Comments panel, which shows all comments. You can click on the
button in order to add your comment.
A My comment field. You type your comment here and hit Ctrl+S or click the
button to submit it. This is just a shortcut
for the 
button of the Comments panel.
In the Comments panel you can click on the time indication of a comment in order to open the detail view of that particular comment. In this view you can
Edit the comment (if you have permission to do so, which is application-specific).
reply to that comment to start a discussion thread (which is more precise that just commenting on the discussion topic.
Pick an emotion. Emotions are a kind of minimlistic voting system about a comment. Picking an emotion expresses your opinion about that comment. You can change your opinion any time, but you can have only one opinion per comment.
The site maintainer can edit the list of available emotion icons.
Visibility of comments¶
Lino leaves it up to the application to define rules for regulating who can see a comment.
The author of a comment can mark it as confidential.
Lino asks the commentable who is part of the discussion group
The comments plugin provides different user roles for managing permissions about comments.
Menu commands¶
This plugin also adds the following menu commands:
Office ‣ My comments
Office ‣ Recent comments
Explorer ‣ Office ‣ Comments
Glossary¶
A written text that one user wants to share with others.
A comment is always about a given discussion topic. All comments about a given topic are called a discussion.
A comment has no “recipient”. When you submit a comment, Lino notifies the other members of the discussion group
A comment can be a reply to another comment. All comments replying directly or indirectly to a given comment are called a thread.
Comments are stored in the
Commentdatabase model.All comments about a given topic
A database row that serves as the topic of a series of comments.
The comments that reply directly or indirectly to a given comment.
The group of site users who participate in a discussion.
Lino leaves it up to the application to define rules for this. For example in Lino Noi the team of a ticket defines the discussion group, in Lino Welfare all coaches of a client, in chatter the members of the user group, in Lino Avanti nobody gets notified.
A group of users who discuss with each other using comments.
A database row that can potentially become discussion topic.
Lino leaves it up to the application to define which database models are commentable. For example in Lino Noi users can discuss about tickets, in Lino Avanti about clients, in Lino Amici about persons and organizations.
See also¶
Developer documentation: comments : The comments framework