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1============
2Introduction
3============
4
5Copyright (c) "Quintagroup": http://quintagroup.com, 2004-2009
6
7Plone Comments (quintagroup.plonecomments) is a Plone product developed
8to improve the site managers and editors expirience with standard
9commenting mechanism in Plone.
10
11.. contents::
12
13
14Features
15============
16
17- Notify admin about comment posted
18
19- Notify commentator about his comment aproval
20
21- Notify author of parent comment about new follow up added
22
23- Moderation of comments, approval of comments
24
25- Anonymous commenting
26
27- Added Name field to comment form, it is required for anonymous comments
28
29- Article author can be notified about new comment after the approval by reviewer
30
31- List of recent comments for more comfortable moderation
32
33- Configlet that allow:
34
35  o Turning on/off Moderation
36
37  o Turning on/off Manager notification
38
39  o Turning on/off Editor notification
40
41  o Turning on/off Anonymous Commenting
42
43  o Configure admin e-mail for notifications
44
45  o Configure notification subject
46
47- qPloneCaptcha integrated (needs the qPloneCaptcha to be installed)
48
49
50Notes
51============
52
53Comments moderation is implemented with involvement of two stage workflow.
54Comments are created in "private" state and visible only to DiscussionManager
55group of users.
56
57To differentiate between logged-in (registered) commentors and Anonymous
58commentors that pretend to be one person or other one, we use Boldness of
59name. The Comment author is in bold when posted by logged in member. The
60names provided when posting Anonymously are in plain text.
61
62Notification subject control allows to enter custom prefix to disctinct
63notifications comming from different sites.
64
65
66Usage
67============
68
69One of possible UseCases:
70
71  Moderation is enabled and authors notification is turned on.
72
73    - New comment posted in private state.
74
75    - Notification is sent to the emails entered in Plone Comments configlet.
76
77    - Moderator User with DiscussionManager role see the comment.
78
79    - The comment can be deleted or published on modaration stage.
80
81    - When comment is published notification is sent to Article Editor.
82
83
84Links
85============
86
87- Download releases from Sourceforge.net "Plone Comments project area":http://sf.net/projects/quintagroup
88
89- Get latest development version from "SVN":http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/quintagroup.plonecomments/trunk
90
91
92Requirements
93============
94
95- Plone 3.x
96
97- plone.browserlayer is required for Plone 3.0.x
98
99
100License
101============
102
103Please find license in *LICENSE.GPL*.
104
105
106Author
107============
108
109The product is developed and maintained by http://quintagroup.com team.
110
111  Authors:
112
113    - Volodymyr Cherepanyak
114
115    - Andriy Mylenkyy
116
117    - Mykola Kharechko
118
119    - Vitaliy Stepanov
120
121  Contributors:
122
123    - Gerry Kirk: product translations improvement and proofreading
124
125    - Dorneles Tremea: code cleanup and generic setup porting
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