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How to override plone.app.discussion's comments viewlet
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Override the comments template through-the web
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* go to the ZMI
* click on portal_view_customizations
* customize plone.comments (plone.app.discussion.interfaces.IDiscussionLayer)
Override the comments template with z3c.jbot on the file system
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http://pypi.python.org/pypi/z3c.jbot
setup.py::
install_requires=[
...
'z3c.jbot',
],
configure.zcml::
Replace with a custom browserlayer of your package.
Create template directory::
$ mkdir overrides
Copy comments viewlet template to overrides directory::
$ cp ../parts/omelette/plone/app/discussion/browser/comments.pt overrides/plone.app.discussion.browser.comments.pt
Restart your Plone instance and you can start to customize your copy of the comments viewlet.
Override the comments viewlet class on the file system
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interfaces.py::
from plone.app.discussion.interfaces import IDiscussionLayer
class IMyDiscussionLayer(IDiscussionLayer):
"""Marker interface for browser layer
"""
profiles/default/browserlayer.xml::
configure.zcml::
comments.py::
...
comment.pt::
...