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Commenting solution for publishing pages
I need a commenting solution for SharePoint publishing pages. What are other's using? I've see some articles about Yammer, but not quite sure how that would work since the Yammer feed would need to...
If you use Yammer, then the embed will work just fine if you use the OpenGraph as the link to the page.
One thing that I find extremely useful is the https://www.yammer.com/widget/configure which allows you to test your embed code before you actually implement it.
Here is the example: You add a script block to the Page Layout and then use Javascript to change the embed block url property to match the current URL of the page. Here is what an example embed might look like using the Tool (trick to using the tool, change the type of the feed to Open Graph and then click Apply)
yam.connect.embedFeed({
"feedType": "open-graph",
"config": {
"use_sso": false,
"header": false,
"footer": false,
"showOpenGraphPreview": false,
"defaultToCanonical": false,
"hideNetworkName": false,
"promptText": "Tell me where you want to go today..."
},
"objectProperties": {
"url": "http://www.microsoft.com",
"type": "page",
"fetch": true,
"private": false,
"ignore_canonical_url": false
},
"container": "#embedded-feed"
});
- You could try a page layout with a comment field and some javascript handling the comments.
Why not wait for the communication sites?
In the past the blog sites also had something like this available.- One issue I have seen with the Commo Sites is that while you can reply and post comments, it doesn't have any more functionality. For example, Likes don't exist (yet). You also cannot @ mention someone (yet). The Commo Sites will be an eventual replacement (assuming that Microsoft actually implements all of the socialization features that Yammer provides).
