Add new fields to Comments Layout for editing on backend

[adamw49354280]

Hello,

We would like to reply to comments on our website or at least simulate it.

We use comments for Product Reviews with the star rating. Is there a way to add new fields to comments so that on the back end we can edit the comment and add in our replies?

We would add new fields where comments can be edited so that we can add in our replies:

To make sure our replies show on the front end we would edit the Module Templates > Comments Layout by adding in new tags for the new fields: tag_reply and tag_replier:

On the front end it would show our replies like this:

What would be the best way to achieve this?

Thank you in advance.

[Liam Dilley · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

- You can not add new fields into the comments and can not expand on that.

- You can just add another comment on the front end And set the name as the company name (Or what you want). While I have not done this if you render using the Liquid Markup you could say "If name = " And style the comment differently to appear as a reply.

You wont get exactly what you want above and you could use web app submissions instead of comments but this requires a lot of work to get around the fact that by default you need to be logged in etc.

3rd Party comments integrated will defiantly do the trick, they wont have the SEO benifits as they will be embed code rendering but they will better do this and more.

I would not bother with the required work here though, Since you will need to migrate that site and any others you have out of BC you should be working on migrating out of the BC Platform.

[adamw49354280]

Thank you as always Liam.