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I have a specific requirement. Apart from the general comments which everyone can view or post for my custom node I also require private comments thread which will be shared only by the node created user and selected few. Using the same comments form will not work as it will be viewed by all. Any inputs on achieving this?

Thanks.

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For Drupal 7 see the Reply module. It lets you create your own set of "comments" attached to any Entities you want.

With some custom code you could limit the field to a specific user role or set of users. Be sure to read the README in the module.

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If you are up for a bit of code you can try the following approach,

Create a content type "private comments", it will have the title and body field that you need by default, you need to add a node reference field to the content type on which you want this private comments enabled. Now you need to create a block that will render the node add form for this content type. You can then enable this block where you want your private comments.

On the submit function, the title and body will be saved by Drupal, you need to add a submit handler so that the reference between your content type and comments is saved.

The advantage of creating a content type is you will get integration with views and you can then show your comments anywhere.

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  • Hi, Thanks for the response. Will try out the possibilities.
    – quest
    Aug 28, 2012 at 4:34
  • I think we cannot use reply module as it says: "This module is still in development stage and I discourage using it in production website."
    – quest
    Aug 28, 2012 at 4:35

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