Topic-icon Repeatability and the same comments on the same articles

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Something I did not expect when I started using this system is that articles act like different entities depending on whether they're seen on the front page or on a menu showing a blog layout or an article layout. How are people dealing with this?

For example, I added a comment box in an article on the front page and a made a comment on it, but when the same article is seen by using a menu item which shows it among articles of the same category, the comment is gone. I'm guessing that the url for each of these instances is different and that's what the comment index is using.

For now I only have a comment box on the front page and am using the href option to specify the root of the site, but am wondering if there is a unique url for each article I could use. Then I'd just put that in the href tag with the article, and however I displayed the article, it should have the same comments, likes, etc. because the url I specify would be the same.

Thanks for your help!
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Kit,
The URL option you're using is one way to do it. Basically, for any comment boxes for a specific article, you'd need to make sure you include the same href to that article. That way, no matter what URL the user is actually on, the comment will be for the 'common' href you specify.

The other option is to use the JFBCContent plugin (configured in the "Social" configuration area of JFBConnect). There is a lot of code to try to make sure we generate the same URL for the same article regardless of whether its shown on the front-page, a blog view, or standalone. It's not foolproof in case you have multiple menu items pointing to the exact same article, which can create a new SEF URL for each instance. This is uncommon, however, but it happens. In general, the Content plugin has been refined over the last year to be very accurate in creating the same URL and is what we'd recommend instead of adding your own comment box to each article..

Although the module/tag method, when done right (using the same href per module), is guaranteed to always be right since you do it yourself, it can be much more tedious.

Hope that helps explain,
Alex
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13 years 11 months ago #23944 by Kit

alzander wrote: The other option is to use the JFBCContent plugin (configured in the "Social" configuration area of JFBConnect).


Oh. I think I stopped using that because it made my blog pages way to busy, so now I'm doing the individual tag method. I'll look at the plugin again and see if I missed something.
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There's a lot of options in the Social configuration area where you can disable up-to everything, if you wanted. You should be able to configure it to automatically add what you're looking for, and will be much simpler than manually doing it on every page, if possible.

Good luck,
Alex
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