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Hi All,

I have a few safecracker forms, and the comments are off for the entries submitted using safecracker.  I haven’t been able to find how to sort this out; but how do I turn on comments for safecracker submitted entries by default?

Thanks

p.s. EE 2.1.5

Hi JohanD—

You could either add this field to your form (to allow the author to explicity choose to allow comments) or a hidden field variant of the same:

<label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" name="allow_comments" value="y" {allow_comments} /> Allow Comments</label>

Does that help solve your question?

Kevin

I think this might be a bug. My Safecracker form is editing a channel where the Select ‘Allow Comments’ button in Publish page by default? preference is set to “Yes”. I loaded an entry in a Safecracker form whose Allow Comments checkbox is checked, and viewing source I see:

<form id="publishForm" method="post" action="http://site.com/edit/something"  enctype="multipart/form-data" >
<div class='hiddenFields'>
<input type="hidden" name="ACT" value="321" />
<input type="hidden" name="RET" value="http://site.com/edit/something" />
<input type="hidden" name="URI" value="edit/something" />
<input type="hidden" name="XID" value="e154f0a4047e67fbf4c885cf4713d6e401a1e" />
<input type="hidden" name="return_url" value="edit/something" />
<input type="hidden" name="author_id" value="4321" />
<input type="hidden" name="channel_id" value="4" />
<input type="hidden" name="entry_id" value="12345" />
<input type="hidden" name="site_id" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="edit/something" />
<input type="hidden" name="preserve_checkboxes" value="yes" />
<input type="hidden" name="allow_comments" value="n" />
</div>

Note the last line there. Even if my checkbox is checked in the CP, the hidden field automatically inserted here reads “n”. I have to explicity override that later with another hidden field:

<input type="hidden" name="allow_comments" value="y" />

towards the end of the form.

I’m experiencing the same issue as described above by Ryan.

When I publish an entry via the Control Panel, comments are enabled as per the Channel Preferences settings.

EE v2.2.2 - Build: date 20110801

Ryan and Andrea, while I work on trying to confirm this as a bug and report it, can either of you confirm whether or not this happened before EE 2.2.2 (assuming you had a version of the site in question before EE 2.2.2)?

Just a quick update: I’ve been able to confirm this, and it’s definitely a bug. I’ve filed a bug report on it here. For now, does it work for everyone to use Ryan’s workaround of manually adding the same hidden field with the correct value later in the form?

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the update.

So far, the workaround described by Ryan is working fine for me.

Edit: I can’t say for versions previous to 2.2.2

Your bug report looks accurate, Kevin, and the form does work when explicitly setting the comments to “y”. I can’t confirm this happened previous to 2.2.2 - we updated from 1.7 to 2.2.2.

Ok, glad the bug report has all the right info. This looks like an easy one for the devs to reproduce, so that’s good news. I’d recommend just commenting on that bug report in order to be notified about updates.

Anything else I can help with, or is it alright to mark this thread “Resolved”?