CB activity work flow

Hello

I just noticed that if some comments were made to an asset elsewhere than the activity main flow it would not display in it but only on the asset.

Is it intended behaviour ? how can I made the comments appear in the main flow ?

For instance see activ-ha.com/business/81-restaurants/3599-vecchia-senese comments do not appear in activ-ha.com/timeline

thanks for hint
Jean

Comments on a stream are always attached to the activity entry unless told otherwise. So for example the asset of comments on an activity entry would be "activity.123". You can see this within CB Activity > Comments by reviewing the comments raw information. You have to override this from PHP. There's examples of this within the activity_core template file, which you can override and add your custom parsing to if you like.

I'll probably allow a default asset for comments to be stored with an activity entry in the future, but at this time that's not possible. Added a feature ticket for this as is a pretty neat idea.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/6855

I dont really understand all
In fact we use a CB auto action for a new activity on hotspot creation with asset hotspot.[var2]
I thought that any comments made on this asset page would be shown on this activity on the main stream or on a separate one.
Did I miss something ?
Should I change the auto action somehow ? maybe the load setting should be by asset and owner to show all related ?
I would try to avoid php coding in order to keep things simple

The comments on an activity entry are tied to that activity entry. They are not tied to the source object of that activity entry. To change the asset for the comments of an activity entry you have to do so from PHP. The activity_core.php is doing exactly that for several core activity entries. There's no other way to do it at this time.

My feature ticket is to implement support for specifying the default asset for comments for an activity entry at time of storage (so when you generate your activity), which avoids needing to use PHP; but I've no idea when i'll get that implemented as i'm busy with CB Conditional.

That would be great.
Can you make that it applies by default to all already existing activities ? So that a found asset would inherit all comments ?
That would allow use of all existing comments and correct affectation

Can you make that it applies by default to all already existing activities ?

No, that's not how it'd work. The default asset for comments would be saved to the activity entry it self. You will have to manually fix existing entries. If you want to override it for past and future activity entries you need to do so from PHP like core activity is doing.