Owen,

Comments are added to a new table in the database that was created when Blog4Umbraco was installed.  They show up on the dashboard when you click on Content in the Content section.

I hope this answers your question!

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Donald

Thanks that does help clarify where they are saved. 

However my main problem still exists. I'm wanting a email to be generated every time a new comment is added to the blog. Is there any way that I can add this feature myself? I've read (maybe it was an old installation) that every comment becomes a child node of the blog page, and if I set up "Notifications" for a publish action that I will be notified. But its not creating a new node and I need to find a new way of doing this.

Any help would be awesome,

Thanks,

Owen

Hi 

I am also having two issues with the blog.

1. I have researched the comments not saving issues here in this forum, however I have not been able to resolve the issue. When a comment is added to a blog post it is not being added to the Comments table in the database. 

2. I have researched the answer to the the error; Error reading XSLT file: \xslt\BlogTagcloud.xslt. However no solution has solved this problem. 

I have ran out of time to get this fixed and need some real answers to these issues very quickly.

Regards

Martin

Hi Owen

Did you ever find a solution to the issue of sending notification emails when a comment is added to a blog post?  I'm having the same issue now, and would be very grateful for info on any progress you've made!

Thanks

Allan

Martin - probably too late to save you (with all due respect) but to solve the problem, open the TagCloud.xslt in notepad - at the end of the file is a funny square character. Remove this and save. This should either solve the problem, or at least get things moving.

Allan - as a quick fix it would be easy enough to write a new method that sends you an email upon a successful comment being added. I would envisage adding another AJAX call to usercontrols/Blog4Umbraco/AJAXCommentForm.ascx as follows:

...
jQuery.post(url, { author: jQuery("#commentform #author").val(), email: jQuery("#commentform #email").val(), url: jQuery("#commentform #url").val(), comment: jQuery("#commentform #comment").val() },
function(data){
jQuery("#commentLoading").hide();
jQuery("#commentPosted").show().removeClass("error");

#####Add code here to send email ######

if(data == 0){
... 

I did read on the codeplex site for the blog package that this is being developed so the above could be seen as a temporary solution pending an updated release of the blog package.

If you are interested drop me a note - [email protected] - I will be looking to add this to my site over the next week or two so would happily provide the code and instructions on adding to your site.

Regards

Nigel 

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