============================================================================== Howto override the enable_conversation method. ============================================================================== plone.app.discussion way to decide if commenting is enabled on a content object can be quite complex and cumbersome due to the need to be backward compatible with the way the old commenting system in Plone (<4.1) worked. The comments viewlet calls the enabled method of the ConversationView to decide if the add comment form should show up: .. literalinclude:: ../../../plone/app/discussion/browser/conversation.py :language: python :pyobject: ConversationView If you want to override this behavior, you just have to create your own enabled method. To do so, we first have to register our custom ConversationView by overriding the existing one in our configure.zcml:: Now we implement the conversation view with a single "enable" method in conversation.py:: from zope.component import queryUtility from plone.registry.interfaces import IRegistry from Acquisition import aq_inner from Products.CMFCore.utils import getToolByName from plone.app.discussion.interfaces import IDiscussionSettings class ConversationView(object): def enabled(self): context = aq_inner(self.context) # Fetch discussion registry registry = queryUtility(IRegistry) settings = registry.forInterface(IDiscussionSettings, check=False) # Check if discussion is allowed globally if not settings.globally_enabled: return False # Check if discussion is allowed on the content object if context.allow_discussion is not None: return context.allow_discussion # Check if discussion is allowed on the content type portal_types = getToolByName(self, 'portal_types') document_fti = getattr(portal_types, context.portal_type) return document_fti.getProperty('allow_discussion')