31 October 2010, 19:57

Hi Kristina,

We run 1.3.2.

This screenshot is what we receive when accessing the Details page for a file artefact.

http://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=100068

Regards

Andy

31 October 2010, 21:48

Images are not the issue, other file types are. This is what we see:  http://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=100105&view=24008

File is uploaded and then placed into a public view via the 'Files to Download' block. 

Cheers, Dirk

31 October 2010, 23:42

Hi Andy,

Can you please check in "Edit view access" for that view that "Allow comments" has a checkmark?

Cheers

Kristina

01 November 2010, 0:00

Hi Andy and Dirk,

There seems to be something off here. On mahara.org I could comment on Dirk's screenshot if I wished to do so because I had the "Place feedback" link. However, as Richard told me, that is because it's an image. We tried a non-image file on mahara.org and could not place feedback.

Strangely, on demo.mahara.org I could place feedback on a non-image item. That's on Mahara 1.3.2testing.

As Andy has already filed a report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/668236 , it's on our attention radar.

Cheers

Kristina

01 November 2010, 0:41

Hi Kristina,

Yes, "allow comments" is checked for that view.

Andy

01 November 2010, 2:51

Hello Andy,

Thanks for your confirmation. Then it is something that needs fixing (see Richard's comment above). As you already posted on Launchpad that should be good to keep track of.

Cheers

Kristina

21 February 2011, 4:28

Hi Richard, Do you know if we can hardcode this feature now?  We have several tutors who have been using this feature until we upgraded to 1.3.3 and now you can only add comments to image files.  We do not want to discourage staff using Mahara as they are now finding mahara really useful in teaching and learning especially when adding feedback to a learners portfolio.

Thanks

21 February 2011, 15:35

Hi Belinda,

It will be fixed eventually, because in 1.4 users will be able to turn comments on/off for individual files, and the default settings for 'allow comments' are set in the admin area based on artefact types.

An urgent fix in 1.3.3 is possible but you'd have to do two things:

1. Turn comments on for all existing files in the database with the following command:

 UPDATE artefact SET commentsallowed = 1 WHERE artefacttype = 'file'

2. Turn comments on for all files uploaded in the future, either by applying the patch here: http://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=122393 or just manually add the following at line 705 of the file artefact/file/lib.php:

        if (empty($this->id)) {
            $this->allowcomments = 1;
        }

22 February 2011, 6:29

Thanks Richard, this has worked a treat.  When will we be able to demo 1.4?  It will be interesting to see what updates/changes you have made to mahara.

Thanks again for your support, much appreciated.

Belinda

22 February 2011, 15:22

You can see a fairly recent version at http://master.dev.mahara.org - but we're going to make quite a lot more changes.  If you want to install it yourself for testing, you can always download an up-to-date tarball from http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/archive-tarball/master