Can not activate discussions on Plone Dexterity types (folderish)

dexterity, plone

Solution

plone.app.discussion currently disables commenting for all containers (see https://dev.plone.org/ticket/11245 for discussion).

I used a monkey patch like the following in one project to short-circuit the normal check and make sure that commenting was enabled for my folderish content type:

from Acquisition import aq_inner
from Products.highcountrynews.content.interfaces import IHCNNewsArticle
from plone.app.discussion.conversation import Conversation
old_enabled = Conversation.enabled
def enabled(self):
    parent = aq_inner(self.__parent__)
    if parent.portal_type == 'my_portal_type':
        return True
    return old_enabled(self)
Conversation.enabled = enabled

where 'my_portal_type' is, of course, the portal_type you want commenting enabled for.

Problem

I have been working on a dexterity based plone application. I have created a couple of new types. This is what I did to activate comments on a specific dexterity content type named "activity_report": In Plone Control Panel In the Discussion section I enabled the following: - globally enable comments - enable anonymous comments In the Types Section I chose the "Activity Report" type from the drop down and enabled the "Allow comments" option. On the file system In the FTI file activityreport.xml: ``` <property name="allow_discussion">True</property> ``` I have restarted the instance and even reinstalled the product, but I can not activate the comments section in the dexterity type. It is worth mentioning that a standard type (ex. Page) can have the discussion module activated. Is there something I am missing?

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