co-ment

The co-ment module provides Drupal with an interface to co-ment®, a Web service/Free software for submitting texts to comments and annotations. When annotating a text in co-ment, you just select the word, sentence or chunk of text you want to comment, and your comment will appear in the left margin, being potentially available for a thread of discussion in response to this comment.

Drupal 7

The release below for Drupal 7 is functionally working. Nevertheless it is tagged as "beta version", since code could be improved to respect more closely Drupal 7 architecture, like Field API. Moreover, the notifications have not been tested. And, since Jquery UI Dialog Drupal contributed module has not been ported to Drupal 7, when an existing text is edited, if some chunks of text where comments were attached to are deleted, these comments without scope are detached by default.

Requirements

You should either have an account on co-ment website, since co-ment is provided as a web service (see http://www.co-ment.com/ for details) ; or you can run your own instance of co-ment, since co-ment can also be download, installed and used as a Free software (see http://www.co-ment.org/ for details).

For a full experience of co-ment, the Jquery UI Dialog Drupal Contributed Module is required (see Jquery UI Dialog below).

Usage

Creating/editing/deleting co-ment texts is done as for any content in Drupal. The only particularity of a co-ment text is that you have an option to keep (default) or delete comments not affected by the edit, when you're updating a content. Also, as detailed below in section Jquery UI Dialog, comments left without scope during an update can be detached or deleted. co-ment texts are also fully compatible with Drupal core revisions mechanism, allowing to access to succesive revisions of a content and to revert to a specific revision.

But, the main interest of co-ment module is when viewing texts. Users in roles with the "post comments on co_ment_text nodes" permission will be able to comment any text in your co-ment workspace and reply to existing comment threads. Annotations in co-ment are linked to a word, a group of words or letters, a sentence, in short to any chunk of text that is selected with mouse pointer. Annotations can be displayed in a left margin and are opened to discussion threads.

Jquery UI Dialog

When an existing text is edited, it may happen that some chunks of text where comments were attached to are deleted. In other words, these comments are left without any scope. In this context, you can choose to keep these comments and they will still appear in the new revision, but detached from the text. Or you can choose to delete these comments in the new revision of the text.

To enable this choice, the Jquery UI Dialog Drupal contributed module is required. Otherwise, comments without scope are detached by default.

Since Jquery UI Dialog Drupal contributed module has not been ported to Drupal 7 yet, this feature is only available for 6.x release.

This module is sponsored by Sopinspace.

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