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I’m having issues with comments…

I have commenting allowed for the channel in the admin panel - admin > Channel prefs > channel >Edit prefs > Comment posting prefs.

But any new entries have commenting disallowed, if I go into the admin panel and tick “Update all existing entries with this setting?” all entries can be commented on again but any new ones i add after that can’t…

Any idea why this might be?

Here’s my code, it is outside the channel entries loop.

<div id="commentlist">
<h3>Comments</h3>
<p>    {exp:comment:entries sort="asc"}<br />
        {if no_results}<br />
            There are no comments yet<br />
        {/if}<br />
        {if avatar}<br />
            <div class="commentavatar"><br />
                <a href="http://{url}">{avatar_url}</a><br />
            </div><br />
        {if:else}<br />
            <div class="commentavatar">{images}avatars/avatar_blank.gif</div><br />
        {/if}<br />
        <div class="commentname"><br />
            <a href="http://{url}">{name}</a><br />
        </div><br />
        <div class="commenttime"><br />
            {comment_date format="%d %M %Y"}<br />
        </div><br />
        <div class="commenttext"><br />
            {comment}<br />
        </div><br />
    {/exp:comment:entries}<br />
</div></p>

<p><div id="commentform"></p><h3>Add a Comment</h3>

<p>{exp:comment:form} <br />
    <div class="commentavatar"><br />
    {exp:member:custom_profile_data}<br />
        {if avatar}<br />
               {avatar_url}<br />
        {if:else}<br />
               {site_url}/images/avatars/no-logo.gif<br />
        {/if}<br />
    {/exp:member:custom_profile_data} <br />
    </div></p>

<p>    {if logged_in}<br />
    <div class="commentname"><br />
            <a href="http://{url}">{name}</a></p>

<p>        </div><br />
    <textarea name="comment" rows="8" cols="53" id="comment" >{comment}</textarea></p> <br />
    <input type="checkbox" name="notify_me" value="yes" {notify_me} /> Notify me of follow-up comments? <br />
    <input class="btn" type="submit" name="submit" value="Post" /></p> <br />
    <div class="clear"></div><br />
    {if:else}<br />
        Please sign up or login to comment<br />
        <a href="#%22class=%22overlay" rel="ajax/signup" class="overlay btn">Sign up</a><a href="#%22class=%22overlay" rel="ajax/login" class="overlay btn">Login</a><br />
    {/if}<br />
    <div class="clear"></div><br />
{/exp:comment:form}<br />
</div>

Have you turned on both commenting in general and in particular for the channel you’re posting to? What version and build of EE are you using?

EE2, commenting is turned on for the channel but where do you turn commenting on in general from? I looked for something like that but couldn’t find it.

Thanks

While you may have commenting turned on for the channel, you may have set the channel to not have Select ‘Allow Comments’ button in Publish page by default? turned on. See the attached screen shot.

Ah yes, thanks Sue but I’m afraid I did have that set to yes. I should probably mention i’m using Safecracker so users never actually use the control panel publish window, not sure if that makes a difference

jamestowers,

Just to confirm. Any entry you add via SafeCracker doesn’t respect comment rules set in CP?

If so then this is something you will have to follow up with in the SafeCracker support area or there may be a parameter to set this somewhere in their docs

Hi John, I’ve just realised this issue never got sorted, and of course now Barrett Newton will direct me back to you guys. Any new insight into why this might be happening?

Hi, jamestowers. Are you using EE’s version of SC, or 1.03?

Ah, still using 1.03, I take it I should change? Is this a sI
Ole process or is there some docs I should follow?

Please do change to 2.0, so we’re both using the same version. Should be painless.

Hi Sue, all changed, what should i do next?

Let’s have you post your SafeCracker form..

Here’s a simplified version of it as it’s pretty big

When I was reading through the Feature Requests area, I found something related to this, and it might be a bug. I’m going to test on EE2.1.3 build 20110411, which was just released a few minutes ago. Will be back in a bit..

Hi Sue,
Did you find anything?