Introduction to Tiny Comments

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Overview

This plugin is only available for paid TinyMCE subscriptions.

The Comments plugin provides the ability to start or join a conversation by adding comments to the content within the TinyMCE editor.

Collaborate on your projects within your content

The Comments plugin provides:

  • A user interface to collaborate on content by creating and replying to comments.

  • A way to control the delete and resolve operations on a comment or comment thread.

Primary Comments functions

The Comments plugin allows the user to perform the following functions:

  • Create a comment

  • Edit a comment

  • Reply to a comment

  • Lookup a comment

  • Resolve a comment thread

  • Delete a comment or comment thread

Interactive example

The following example shows how to configure the Comments plugin in embedded mode. For information on configuring the Comments plugin, see: Comments plugin Modes.

  • TinyMCE

  • HTML

  • JS

  • Edit on CodePen

<div id="tiny-ui">
  <textarea id="comments-embedded" style="width: 100%; height: 500px;">
    <h2>Welcome to Tiny Comments!</h2>
    <p>Please try out this demo of our new Tiny Comments premium plugin.</p>
    <ol>
      <li>Highlight the content you want to comment on.</li>
      <li>Click the <em>Add Comment</em> icon in the toolbar.</li>
      <li>Type your comment into the text field at the bottom of the Comment sidebar.</li>
      <li>Click <strong>Save</strong>.</li>
    </ol>
    <p>Your comment is then attached to the text, <span class="mce-annotation tox-comment" data-mce-annotation-uid="mce-conversation_19679600221621399703915" data-mce-annotation="tinycomments">exactly like this!</span></p>
    <p>If you want to take Tiny Comments for a test drive in your own environment, Tiny Comments is one of the premium plugins you can try for free for 30 days by signing up for a Tiny account. Make sure to check out our documentation as well.</p>
    <p>And if you are ready to buy, you can either purchase Tiny Comments a la carte or as part of your Tiny Pro subscription. If you are a current cloud user, Tiny Comments has already been added to your key, and if you are a self-hosted user, Tiny Comments is now available in the latest download which you can access in My Account.</p>
    <h2>A simple table to play with</h2>
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      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th>Product</th>
          <th>Value</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td><a href="https://www.tiny.cloud/">Tiny Cloud</a></td>
          <td>The easiest and most reliable way to integrate powerful rich text editing into your application.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><a href="https://www.tiny.cloud/drive/">Tiny Drive</a></td>
          <td>Image and file management for TinyMCE in the cloud.</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
    <p>Thanks for supporting TinyMCE! We hope it helps your users create great content.</p>
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  </textarea>
</div>
var currentAuthor = 'A Tiny User';
var userAllowedToResolve = 'Admin1';

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea#comments-embedded',
  toolbar: 'bold italic underline | addcomment showcomments',
  menubar: 'file edit view insert format tools tc',
  menu: {
    tc: {
      title: 'Comments',
      items: 'addcomment showcomments deleteallconversations'
    }
  },
  plugins: 'paste code tinycomments',
  tinycomments_mode: 'embedded',
  tinycomments_author: currentAuthor,
  tinycomments_can_resolve: function (req, done, fail) {
    var allowed = req.comments.length > 0 &&
                  req.comments[0].author === currentAuthor;
    done({
      canResolve: allowed || currentAuthor === userAllowedToResolve
    });
  },
  content_style: 'body { font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px }',
  /* The following setup callback opens the comments sidebar when the editor loads */
  setup: function (editor) {
    editor.on('SkinLoaded', function () {
      editor.execCommand("ToggleSidebar", false, "showcomments", { skip_focus: true });
    })
  }
});

Getting started with the Comments plugin - Selecting a mode

The Comments plugin is available in two modes: Callback mode and Embedded mode.

Callback Mode

This is the default mode for the Comments plugin. This mode is used to store the comments outside the content on a server, such as a database. This mode requires a number of callback functions to handle comment data. For instructions on configuring the Comments plugin in callback mode, see: Configuring the Comments plugin in callback mode

Embedded Mode

This mode stores the comments within the content. No callbacks need to be configured for this mode. For instructions on configuring the Comments plugin in embedded mode, see: Configuring the Comments plugin Comments in embedded mode