Anonymous comments by logged in users

Hello,

I'm trying to add a comments to a page, but I need it to be anonymous comments (person have to type the name manually), but only for a specified group of users. Now when I try to do it, even when I set a name, it takes my username instead of what I've written. I'm using TicketComments, but actually Quip does the same.

I suppose that it's needed to rewrite some string in TicketComment snippet, but I can't find the string that sets the name.

I'm sure it's quite easy but my knowledge of php is really poor and I will be really appreciated for help in this.

It's a little hacky but in your comment tpl you could add this



Default tpl path is core/components/quip/elements/chunks/quipcomment.chunk.tpl

Quote from: lkfranklin at Mar 05, 2018, 08:23 AM

It's a little hacky but in your comment tpl you could add this

<span class="quip-comment-author">[[+authorName:notempty=`Anonymous`]]:</span>

Default tpl path is core/components/quip/elements/chunks/quipcomment.chunk.tpl

LK, thank you, but I need to have name to be set, and that's a problem.

Ah ok. I'm not entirely sure how quip handles this but there is a property to specify a field for the name that is displayed (&nameField=``). You may be able to get away with just adding in another input field into your add comment tpl and pointing to that with the above property - but it may look for a field in the mod user object, not sure.
[ed. note: lkfranklin last edited this post 8 years, 7 months ago.]

You could definitely hack this, why not allow a new field for this name entirely? Because you seem to require a name, but not want it to be the username.

Assuming LK has started with the original code, hopefully like this:



And if you wanted the same consistent behavior, you could allow them to input their new name in your form, and call this [[specialName]]

and then print that in the form LK identified rather than their 'real' username