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Comment Or Reply To A Post In SharePoint Using Angular

Introduction

Nowadays commenting or replying to a post is the most common thing in all social networks. Hence, in this article, I am going to explain how it works in SharePoint using AngularJS. With the help of this article, you will learn how to set comment or reply feature to a post in SharePoint using AngularJS. 

Objective

Comments allow your website's visitors to have a discussion with you and each other. So, the main objective of this article is you to know how to set a comment feature to a post while developing your website or a page in SharePoint using AngularJS.

Overview
  • Create a picture library or a list in SharePoint to retrieve the posts to the web page
  • Create a web page with nice UI for displaying the posts and users to comment on the posts
  • Create appropriate HTML and AngularJS script for the web page
  • Create a list for storing the comments or replies for the posts
Step1
  • Create a list to store the posts. Where I am naming “Discussions” to the list and creating appropriate columns, as shown below.
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  • Create one more list to store all the replies or comments for the post, as shown below.

Step2
  • Write a script code to retrieve the discussions from the above list
  • Display all discussions in a webpage, where user can reply or comment for the post as shown below,

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    Where user can reply to every discussion individually by clicking on “Reply”. Also, they can read the all replies by clicking the “replies”

    Let’s have a look at “Reply” and “replies” as below:
  • When we click “Reply”, it shows as the below,

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  • By the click on submit, you can post your reply to the post.
  • When clicking on “replies”, it shows all respected replies as below

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  • When click on “Create new discussion”, it shows as following,

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  • You can add new discussion to the above page by using the above form
HTML code for the above UI

  1. <div class="container-fluid" ng-app="DiscussionApp" ng-controller="DiscussionController">  
  2.    <div class="form-horizontal col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">  
  3.       <button type="button" ng-click="CreateDisc();" style="float:right" class="btn btn-primary">Create New Discussion</button>  
  4.       <br/>  
  5.       <br/>  
  6.       <br/>  
  7.       <div class="form-group" id="HideWhenNew">  
  8.          <br/>  
  9.          <br/>  
  10.          <br/>  
  11.          <div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">  
  12.             <div class="comment-maincol mb5" ng-repeat="Item in myarr">  
  13.                <div class="discussions-details ovrh pb5" id="replyDialogContainer">  
  14.                   <strong class="fltl col-xs-10"><a title="{{Item.Subject}}" href="javascript:(void)" class="tdn flight14 ct fbold color-liblack">{{Item.Subject}}</a></strong>  
  15.                   <p title="{{Item.Comments}}" class="pt5 pb5 flight13 fltl clrl" tabindex="0">{{Item.Comments}}</p>  
  16.                   <div class="replies-text cp fltr" tabindex="0"><span title="{{Item.ReplyCount}}" class="replies-count flight12">  
  17.                      {{Item.ReplyCount}}</span><span title="0" class="replies-count flight12" ng-if="Item.ReplyCount==null">  
  18.                      0</span><a class="replyarrow-up flight12" ng-click="ReadComment(Item.ID)" title="replies "> replies</a>  
  19.                   </div>  
  20.                   <div class="flight12 fltr clrl" id="childComment"><span title="{{Item.AuthorTitle}}" tabindex="0" class="fitalic">  
  21.                      {{Item.AuthorTitle}}</span> | <span title="{{Item.Created|date:'M/d/yyyy hh:mm:ss a'}}" tabindex="0" class="fitalic">   
  22.                      {{Item.Created|date:'M/d/yyyy hh:mm:ss a'}}</span> |  <span title="{{Item.CommentFor}}" tabindex="0" class="fitalic">For Doc:{{Item.CommentFor}}</span> <a title="" href="javascript:(void)" class="tdn curd" style="color: #008272;">  
  23.                      </a> | <a title="Reply" href="javascript:(void)" class="tdn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal" ng-click="replyComment(Item.ID)">  
  24.                      Reply</a>   
  25.                   </div>  
  26.                   <div id="showReplyBox{{Item.ID}}" style="display:none" class="showReplyBox">  
  27.                      <div class="col-xs-12 adddiscussion-popup replycomment-popup mt10 flight12"  style="display: block;">  
  28.                         <div class="adddiscussion-fields mt5 ml15 mr15" id="ReplyTxtArea">  
  29.                            <label title="Comments" tabindex="0">  
  30.                            Comments </label>  
  31.                            <textarea placeholder="Your comments here.." id="replyCommentContent" ng-model="db.Reply" rows="5" class="replyCommentContent"></textarea>  
  32.                            <span class="ErMsg">  
  33.                            This field is required</span>  
  34.                         </div>  
  35.                         <br/>  
  36.                         <div class="footer col-xs-12 mt20">  
  37.                            <div class="fltr mr5 mt10">  
  38.                               <button type="button" ng-click="SubmitToReplyList(DiscussionId,db);" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>  
  39.                               <button type="reset" ng-click="ForClose(Item.ID);" class="btn btn-warning">Close</button>  
  40.                            </div>  
  41.                         </div>  
  42.                      </div>  
  43.                   </div>  
  44.                   <div class="col-xs-12 col-lg-12 col-sm-12 col-md-12" ng-if="ActiveMe==Item.ID" id="RespReply{{Item.ID}}">  
  45.                      <div class="replycomment-area" style="display: block;" ng-repeat="Rply in myarrs">  
  46.                         <div class="comment-child-container" id="parent_48">  
  47.                            <div class="replycomment-inner mt10">  
  48.                               <p title="{{Rply.Reply}}" class="pt10 flight13 pb10 pl10 pr10" tabindex="0">  
  49.                                  {{Rply.Reply}}   
  50.                               </p>  
  51.                               <p class="flight12 fitalic pr10 pb10 ovrh"><span class="fltr block"><span title="{{Rply.ReplyAuthorTitle}}" tabindex="0">  
  52.                                  {{Rply.ReplyAuthorTitle}}</span> | <span title="{{Rply.ReplyCreated|date:'M/d/yyyy hh:mm:ss a'}}" tabindex="0">  
  53.                                  {{Rply.ReplyCreated|date:'M/d/yyyy hh:mm:ss a'}}</span> </span>  
  54.                               </p>  
  55.                            </div>  
  56.                         </div>  
  57.                      </div>  
  58.                   </div>  
  59.                </div>  
  60.             </div>  
  61.          </div>  
  62.       </div>  
  63.       <div id="ShowWhenNeedCreate">  
  64.          <div class="form-group">  
  65.             <label class="col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-sm-3 col-xs-3">CommentFor:</label>  
  66.             <div class="col-lg-9 col-md-9 col-sm-3 col-xs-9">  
  67.                <select class="form-control" ng-model="DataBind.CommentFor" >  
  68.                   <option value="">--select one--</option>  
  69.                   <option value="Doc1">Doc1</option>  
  70.                   <option value="Doc2">Doc2</option>  
  71.                   <option value="Doc3">Doc3</option>  
  72.                </select>  
  73.             </div>  
  74.          </div>  
  75.          <div class="form-group">  
  76.             <label class="col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-sm-3 col-xs-3">Subject:</label>  
  77.             <div class="col-lg-9 col-md-9 col-sm-3 col-xs-9">  
  78.                <input class="form-control" ng-model="DataBind.Subject" type="text" id="TxtSub"/>  
  79.                <span class="ErMsg" id="TxtSubMsg">Please fill out this!</span>  
  80.             </div>  
  81.          </div>  
  82.          <div class="form-group">  
  83.             <label class="col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-sm-3 col-xs-3">Comments:</label>  
  84.             <div class="col-lg-9 col-md-9 col-sm-3 col-xs-9">  
  85.                <textarea class="form-control" ng-model="DataBind.Comments" id="txtCommentFor"></textarea>  
  86.                <span class="ErMsg" id="CmntMsg">Please write some comments!</span>  
  87.             </div>  
  88.             <hr id="HrLine">  
  89.             </hr>  
  90.             <div class="form-group">  
  91.                <div class="col-lg-8 col-md-8 col-sm-8 col-xs-8"></div>  
  92.                <div class="col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4 col-xs-4"><button type="button" ng-click="SubmitToList(DataBind);" class="btn btn-primary BtnsAlign">Submit</button><button type="reset"  class="btn btn-warning BtnsAlign">Clear</button></div>  
  93.             </div>  
  94.          </div>  
  95.       </div>  
  96.    </div>  
  97. </div>  

The above HTML includes all functionalities like “Create new discussion”, “Reply”, “replies”, count for replies etc.

Script code for the above UI

  1. var myApp = angular.module('DiscussionApp', []); //,'ui.bootstrap'   
  2. var hash = [];  
  3. var hashs = [];  
  4. var ThisisforCommentFor = '';  
  5. myApp.controller('DiscussionController', ['$scope', '$http', '$q', function($scope, $http, $q, $compile) {  
  6.     $scope.showModal = false;  
  7.     $("#ShowWhenNeedCreate").hide();  
  8.     GetCustListProperties($scope, "Discussions");  
  9.     GetReplyListProperties($scope, "RepliesOfDiscussions");  
  10.   
  11.     GetDiscussionsItems($scope);  
  12.   
  13.     $scope.ReadComment = function(Thissd) {  
  14.         // alert(Thissd);  
  15.         $scope.ActiveMe = Thissd;  
  16.         $("#RespReply" + Thissd).toggle();  
  17.         GetReplies($scope, Thissd);  
  18.   
  19.     }  
  20.     $scope.replyComment = function(ThsId) {  
  21.         //$scope.showModal = true;  
  22.         //$("#myModal").show();  
  23.         $scope.DiscussionId = ThsId;  
  24.         $("#showReplyBox" + ThsId).toggle();  
  25.     }  
  26.     $scope.CreateDisc = function() {  
  27.         $("#ShowWhenNeedCreate").toggle('slow');  
  28.         //$("#HideWhenNew").hide();       
  29.     }  
  30.     $scope.ForClose = function(RespId) {  
  31.         $("#showReplyBox" + RespId).hide();  
  32.     }  
  33.     $scope.SubmitToReplyList = function(ToId, db) {  
  34.         if (JSON.stringify(db) === undefined) {  
  35.             $("#replyCommentContent").focus();  
  36.             $("span.ErMsg").show();  
  37.         } else {  
  38.             var Comments = JSON.stringify(db);  
  39.             Comments = Comments.replace(/[{}]/g, '');  
  40.             var datavalueOfModal = "{__metadata:{'type':'SP.Data.RepliesOfDiscussionsListItem'}," + Comments + ",DiscussionId:" + ToId + "}";  
  41.             //alert(datavalueOfModal);  
  42.             $.ajax({  
  43.                 url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('RepliesOfDiscussions')/items",  
  44.                 type: "POST",  
  45.                 headers: {  
  46.                     "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",  
  47.                     "X-RequestDigest": $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val(),  
  48.                     "content-Type": "application/json;odata=verbose"  
  49.                 },  
  50.                 data: datavalueOfModal,  
  51.                 success: function(data) {  
  52.                     $scope.ReadComment(ToId);  
  53.                     GetReplyCountOfItem($scope, ToId);  
  54.   
  55.                 },  
  56.                 error: function(error) {  
  57.                     alert(JSON.stringify(error));  
  58.                 }  
  59.             });  
  60.         }  
  61.     }  
  62.     //  
  63.     $("#ReplyTxtArea textarea").keyup(function() {  
  64.         alert("textarea");  
  65.         if ($(this).val()) {  
  66.             $(this).css("border", "1px solid #ababab");  
  67.             $("span.ErMsg").hide();  
  68.         }  
  69.     });  
  70.     //  
  71.     $scope.SubmitToList = function(FormValues) {  
  72.         if ($("#TxtSub").val() === "") {  
  73.   
  74.             $("#TxtSub").css("border", "2px solid #FF0000");  
  75.             $("#TxtSub").focus();  
  76.             $("span#TxtSubMsg").show();  
  77.         } else if ($("#txtCommentFor").val() === "") {  
  78.             $("#txtMeetName").css("border", "2px solid #FF0000");  
  79.             $("#txtCommentFor").focus();  
  80.             $("span#CmntMsg").show();  
  81.         } else {  
  82.             var data = JSON.stringify(FormValues);  
  83.             data = data.replace(/[{}]/g, '');  
  84.             var datavalue = "{__metadata:{'type':'SP.Data.DiscussionsListItem'}," + data + ",ParentId: " + $scope.MtParentId + "}";  
  85.             // console.log(datavalue);  
  86.             $.ajax({  
  87.                 url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('Discussions')/items",  
  88.                 type: "POST",  
  89.                 headers: {  
  90.                     "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",  
  91.                     "X-RequestDigest": $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val(),  
  92.                     "content-Type": "application/json;odata=verbose"  
  93.                 },  
  94.                 data: datavalue,  
  95.                 success: function(data) {  
  96.                     $("#ShowWhenNeedCreate").hide();  
  97.                     $("#HideWhenNew").show();  
  98.                     GetDiscussionsItems($scope);  
  99.                     $scope.$apply(function() {  
  100.                         //$scope.Items=$scope.Items;  
  101.                         $scope.myarr = $scope.myarr;  
  102.                     })  
  103.                     console.log(data);  
  104.                 },  
  105.                 error: function(error) {  
  106.                     alert(JSON.stringify(error));  
  107.                 }  
  108.             });  
  109.         }  
  110.     }  
  111.     $("#ShowWhenNeedCreate textarea[id='txtCommentFor']").keyup(function() {  
  112.         if ($(this).val()) {  
  113.             $(this).css("border", "1px solid #ababab");  
  114.             $("span#CmntMsg").hide();  
  115.         }  
  116.     });  
  117.     $("#ShowWhenNeedCreate input").keyup(function() {  
  118.         if ($(this).val()) {  
  119.             $(this).css("border", "1px solid #ababab");  
  120.             $("span#TxtSubMsg").hide();  
  121.             // $("span#CmntMsg").hide();  
  122.         }  
  123.     });  
  124. }])  
  125.   
  126. function GetDiscussionsItems($scope) {  
  127.     hash = [];  
  128.     $.ajax({  
  129.         url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('Discussions')/items?$filter=ParentId eq " + GetUrlKeyValue("itemid") + " &$select=*&$expand=Author&$select=Author/ID,Author/Title&$orderby=ID desc",  
  130.         method: "GET",  
  131.         async: false,  
  132.         headers: {  
  133.             "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"  
  134.         },  
  135.         success: function(data) {  
  136.             $scope.Items = data.d.results;  
  137.             $scope.MtParentId = $scope.Items[0].ParentId;  
  138.             console.log($scope.MtParentId);  
  139.             $(data.d.results).each(function(listName, currentRowForBody) {  
  140.   
  141.                 var CommentFor = currentRowForBody.CommentFor;  
  142.                 var Subject = currentRowForBody.Subject;  
  143.                 var Comments = currentRowForBody.Comments;  
  144.                 var ReplyCount = currentRowForBody.ReplyCount;  
  145.                 var ParentId = currentRowForBody.ParentId;  
  146.   
  147.   
  148.                 var ID = currentRowForBody.ID;  
  149.                 var AuthorTitle = currentRowForBody.Author.Title;  
  150.                 var Created = currentRowForBody.Created;  
  151.                 //  console.log(currentRowForBody.Author.Title);  
  152.                 var Mu = Subject.split(",");  
  153.                 for (var i = 0; i < Mu.length; i++) {  
  154.                     var smss = {  
  155.                         Subject: Subject,  
  156.                         Comments: Comments,  
  157.                         ReplyCount: ReplyCount,  
  158.                         CommentFor: CommentFor,  
  159.                         ID: ID,  
  160.                         ParentId: ParentId,  
  161.                         AuthorTitle: AuthorTitle.split(",")[i],  
  162.                         Created: Created.split(",")[i]  
  163.                     }  
  164.                     hash.push(smss);  
  165.                 }  
  166.   
  167.   
  168.             });  
  169.             $scope.myarr = hash;  
  170.             //console.log($scope.myarr);  
  171.         },  
  172.         error: function(sender, args) {  
  173.             console.log(args.get_message());  
  174.         }  
  175.     });  
  176. }  
  177.   
  178. function GetReplyCountOfItem($scope, DscId) {  
  179.     $.ajax({  
  180.         url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('Discussions')/items(" + DscId + ")",  
  181.         method: "GET",  
  182.         async: false,  
  183.         headers: {  
  184.             "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"  
  185.         },  
  186.         success: function(data) {  
  187.             $scope.ReplyCounts = data.d.ReplyCount + 1;  
  188.             UpdateReplyCountInDiscList($scope, DscId, $scope.ReplyCounts);  
  189.             console.log($scope.ReplyCounts);  
  190.         },  
  191.         error: function(sender, args) {  
  192.             console.log(args.get_message());  
  193.         }  
  194.     });  
  195. }  
  196.   
  197. function UpdateReplyCountInDiscList($scope, DscId, NewRplyCount) {  
  198.     $.ajax({  
  199.         url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('Discussions')/items(" + DscId + ")",  
  200.         type: "POST",  
  201.         headers: {  
  202.             "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",  
  203.   
  204.             "X-RequestDigest": $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val(),  
  205.   
  206.             "content-Type": "application/json;odata=verbose",  
  207.   
  208.             "IF-MATCH": "*",  
  209.   
  210.             "X-HTTP-Method": "MERGE"  
  211.         },  
  212.         data: "{__metadata:{'type':'SP.Data.DiscussionsListItem'},ReplyCount:" + NewRplyCount + "}",  
  213.         success: function(data) {  
  214.             GetDiscussionsItems($scope);  
  215.             $scope.$apply(function() {  
  216.                 $scope.myarr = $scope.myarr;  
  217.             })  
  218.         },  
  219.         error: function(error) {  
  220.             alert(JSON.stringify(error));  
  221.         }  
  222.     });  
  223. }  
  224.   
  225. function GetReplies($scope, ThisId) {  
  226.     $scope.myarrs = [];  
  227.     //hashs=[];  
  228.     hashs.length = 0;  
  229.     $.ajax({  
  230.         url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('RepliesOfDiscussions')/items?$filter=DiscussionId eq " + ThisId + "&$select=*&$expand=Author&$select=Author/ID,Author/Title",  
  231.         method: "GET",  
  232.         async: false,  
  233.         headers: {  
  234.             "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"  
  235.         },  
  236.         success: function(data) {  
  237.             $(data.d.results).each(function(listName, ReplyBody) {  
  238.                 var Reply = ReplyBody.Reply;  
  239.   
  240.                 var ReplyAuthorTitle = ReplyBody.Author.Title;  
  241.                 var ReplyCreated = ReplyBody.Created;  
  242.                 //  console.log(currentRowForBody.Author.Title);  
  243.                 var Mu = Reply.split(",");  
  244.                 for (var i = 0; i < Mu.length; i++) {  
  245.                     var smss = {  
  246.                         Reply: Reply.split(",")[i],  
  247.                         ReplyAuthorTitle: ReplyAuthorTitle.split(",")[i],  
  248.                         ReplyCreated: ReplyCreated.split(",")[i]  
  249.                     };  
  250.                     hashs.push(smss);  
  251.                 }  
  252.             });  
  253.             $scope.myarrs = hashs;  
  254.         },  
  255.         error: function(sender, args) {  
  256.             console.log(args.get_message());  
  257.         }  
  258.     });  
  259. }  

The above scripts includes all functionalities, validations etc.

References for the above files

Please add the following JS & CSS files to your code in the following order to make the application works.

    · CSS/jquery-ui.css

    · bootstrap.min.css

    · Discussion.css(custom CSS)

    · jquery.min.js

    · angular.min.js

    · Discussion.js(customized JS as defined above)

Conclusion

Hope, I did my job well. So, with the help of this article, you have learned how to set comment or reply feature to a post while developing your website or a page in SharePoint using AngularJS. Make sure to add the all needed reference files to work this application properly.

Thank you…Happy coding.

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