Comments

From Wikanual

Contents 1 client comments 1.1 Frame or entire clip 1.2 Private or public 1.3 Client identification 1.4 Email notification 1.4.1 SENDER_EMAIL 1.4.2 BCC 1.4.3 CC 1.4.4 IDXCOPY 1.5 comment access and retrieval 1.6 comment icons 2 disabling comments 2.1 public pages 2.2 Client rating

client comments

Clients can leave comments for clips that they watched. They can do so when they played the clips with the play option called play (not play in page).

Frame or entire clip

They have the choice to make a comment against the current frame when the clip is in the quicktime format. This result in a link that will bring people back to the point in the movie that they made the comment about.

Private or public

They also can make the comment private by choosing the Don't display comment here option. They still can see the comments though, since they can also delete them.

Client identification

Clients are identified by browser cookies right now. They can enter their name, but don't have to. Interdubs will remember their name against this cookie, and in the future they will not have to enter their name again. Their name will also be used in the logs.

Email notification

INTERDUBS can send an email when a comment has been submitted. The format of these emails is being described here: comment email.

The circle of recipients gets set via the configuration

Comment email recipients

The default value is

SENDER_EMAIL, IDXCOPY

Recipients can be added by adding an email address separated by comma or space. Use actual emails like [email protected] and not extended ones like "INTERDUBS support" <[email protected]>. The later format will not work.

Configuring an empty string will no longer trigger the creation of comment emails.

Aside from actual email addresses the following keywords can be used:

SENDER_EMAIL

All emails configured as the sender email address.

BCC

Emails configured via the configuration

email address(es) to bcc on all mails sent

Using the BCC keyword will not list these recipients on the add comment web page.

CC

Using this keyword will also use the emails set via

email address(es) to bcc on all mails sent

When using CC these emails will get listed on the add comment web page.

IDXCOPY

This key word will send a copy of the comment email to an email account under INTERDUBS control. This can be helpful in case comments need to get retrieved, even after the files have been deleted.

comment access and retrieval

If you go to Edit file you can see and delete comments for a specific file. See Edit_file#comment_edit

To see and edit all comments that have been been entered in your Interdubs segment go to the utils menu and select comments log.

comment icons

Comments that have been created against a specific time will also have an icon frame with them. You can control the size of these icon frames with a configuration variable.

disabling comments

If you don't wish for your visitors to have the ability to leave comments then you can disable this via a configuration.

go to  edit login 

click on  for Disable comments to bring this
configuration under the control of the login

check the setting for Disable comments and select EDIT login

You can also disable for your entire segment by changing the configuration under for utils.

public pages

It is recommended to disable comments on pages that face the public Internet. Please see press releases for more details.

Client rating

You can also offer your clients one click ratings on your pages. See client ratings for more details.