4 The co-ment module provides Drupal with an interface to co-ment®,
5 a Web service/Free software for submitting texts to comments and
6 annotations. When annotating a text in co-ment, you just select the
7 word, sentence or chunk of text you want to comment, and your comment
8 will appear in the left margin, being potentially available for a
9 thread of discussion in response to this comment.
14 You should either have an account on co-ment website, since co-ment is
15 provided as a web service (see http://www.co-ment.com/ for details) ;
16 or you can run your own instance of co-ment, since co-ment can also be
17 download, installed and used as a Free software (see
18 http://www.co-ment.org/ for details).
20 For a full experience of co-ment, the Jquery UI Dialog Drupal
21 Contributed Module is required (see Jquery UI Dialog below).
26 Install the Drupal module as usual, see http://drupal.org/node/70151
27 for further information.
32 * On your co-ment Workspace, you can create up to three users that
33 will be used by Drupal to access your workspace. One user, acting as
34 an Editor, will be able to create/edit/delete texts. A second user,
35 acting as a Commentator, will be able to comment texts. Finally, a
36 third user, acting like an observer, will only be able to view texts
37 and comments (but not to post comments herself).
39 * Configure Drupal user permissions in Administer >> User management
40 >> Permissions >> co-ment module:
44 Users in roles with the "administer co-ment" permission will be
45 able to configure co-ment settings.
47 - create co_ment_text nodes
49 Users in roles with the "create co_ment_text nodes"
50 permission will be able to create new text in your co-ment
53 - edit own co_ment_text nodes
55 Users in roles with the "edit own co_ment_text nodes"
56 permission will be able to update texts they've created in your
59 - edit any co_ment_text nodes
61 Users in roles with the "edit any co_ment_text node"
62 permission will be able to update any text in your co-ment
65 - delete own co_ment_text nodes
67 Users in roles with the "delete own co_ment_text nodes"
68 permission will be able to delete texts they've created in your
71 - delete any co_ment_text nodes
73 Users in roles with the "delete any co_ment_text node"
74 permission will be able to delete any text in your co-ment
77 - post comments on co_ment_text nodes
79 Users in roles with the "post comments on co_ment_text nodes"
80 permission will be able to comment any text in your co-ment
81 workspace and reply to existing comment threads.
86 * Customize in Administer >> Site configuration >> co-ment settings:
88 - the URL of your co-ment workspace.
90 - the login and passwords of co-ment users (Editor, Commentator and
96 Creating/editing/deleting co-ment texts is done as for any content in
97 Drupal. The only particularity of a co-ment text is that you have an
98 option to keep (default) or delete comments not affected by the edit,
99 when you're updating a content. Also, as detailed below in section
100 Jquery UI Dialog, comments left without scope during an update can be
101 detached or deleted. co-ment texts are also fully compatible with
102 Drupal core revisions mechanism, allowing to access to succesive
103 revisions of a content and to revert to a specific revision.
105 But, the main interest of co-ment module is when viewing texts. Users
106 in roles with the "post comments on co_ment_text nodes" permission
107 will be able to comment any text in your co-ment workspace and reply
108 to existing comment threads. Annotations in co-ment are linked to a
109 word, a group of words or letters, a sentence, in short to any chunk
110 of text that is selected with mouse pointer. Annotations can be
111 displayed in a left margin and are opened to discussion threads.
114 -- JQUERY UI DIALOG --
116 When an existing text is edited, it may happen that some chunks of
117 text where comments were attached to are deleted. In other words,
118 these comments are left without any scope. In this context, you can
119 choose to keep these comments and they will still appear in the new
120 revision, but detached from the text. Or you can choose to delete
121 these comments in the new revision of the text.
123 To enable this choice, the Jquery UI Dialog Drupal contributed module
124 is required. Otherwise, comments without scope are detached by
131 * Gérald SÉDRATI-DINET - http://drupal.org/user/616006
133 This project has been sponsored by:
135 One of the European reference solution providers for participatory democracy
136 and public debate using the Internet. Integrator of agile solutions
137 for Web-based collaborative work, including user support. Visit
138 http://www.sopinspace.com for more information.