Advanced CMS - Add-on for Advanced & External reviews

I haven't tried it personally but seems like very useful and will speedup the content review and apprval task.

I will try to take a look personally and will provide some feedback too.

Thanks and Regards,

Praful Jangid

Thanks, please note however that although both authors (Bart & Greg) are EPiServer employees, this add-on is Open Source and is not officially supported by EPiServer.

Hi,

Thanks for creating this very useful addon.
However I am getting 404 error on loading the Editable External Review link. I am able to use rest of the features fine. The view only link works well too (although it adds an additional /en before /externalContentView resulting in 404 but I was able to get around that by adding redirect to remove /en) but edit link keeps giving 404 error.

Can anyone please help in this regard?
I have already added the ExternalReviewInitialization file and set EdiatbleLinksEnabled option to true.

Another question what is the use of following 3 ExternalReviewOptions:
public string ReviewsUrl { get; set; }
public string ContentPreviewUrl { get; set; }
public string ContentIframeEditUrlSegment { get; set; }

Thanks.

Hi,

Thanks for creating this very useful addon.
However I am getting 404 error on loading the Editable External Review link. I am able to use rest of the features fine. The view only link works well too (although it adds an additional /en before /externalContentView resulting in 404 but I was able to get around that by adding redirect to remove /en) but edit link keeps giving 404 error.

Can anyone please help in this regard?
I have already added the ExternalReviewInitialization file and set EdiatbleLinksEnabled option to true.

Another question what is the use of following 3 ExternalReviewOptions:
public string ReviewsUrl { get; set; }
public string ContentPreviewUrl { get; set; }
public string ContentIframeEditUrlSegment { get; set; }

Thanks & Regards.

P.S. Already created an issue for the same in GitHub as well - https://github.com/advanced-cms/advanced-reviews/issues/53

@Kanika,

Thanks for reporting this issue, it's been resolved in v0.2.0

https://world.episerver.com/blogs/bartosz-sekula/dates/2019/7/new-version-of-advanced-reviews-released-v0-2-0/

I'd just like to say thanks to Greg Wiecheć & Bart Sekuła for creating and maintaining this add-on.  It's been a feature that a lot of customers have been asking for and went down very well at Ascend.

I've received two feature requests that I thought I'd feedback to you.

1. Screen width issue
   When a comment "spot" is placed on the page it assumes the person reading the feedback has the same browser viewport width (otherwise it doesn't line up with where it was originally placed). Perhaps one solution to that would be to record the viewport width when the comments were placed and set to that width when reviewing the comments.
   
   
2. External review for projects
   I've often heard the request for the same functionality to be available to preview a whole project unauthenticated.

Thanks

Thank you very much Rob. The fact that people like and use our open source projects is great! :)

About the issues:

1) Whenever adding a new "pin" we store: 1. top/left to the viewport 2. top/left to the property overlay (if applicable) 3. top/left to the block-id 4

And additionally we store `property-name` (if the html is rendered using our html helper or if data-epi-edit or data-epi-property-name is used) and `block-id` (if inside content area)

Then, when loading the pins we try to start from 3 then 2 and then, if there are no property/block to scope it down then we calculate the coords from top/left viewport.

However, I think your suggestion is great - what we could do is to also save the ratio of the pin creator and then when loading the pin just compare two viewport sizes.

This is definitely something we can do soon.

2) This is on our radar, https://github.com/advanced-cms/advanced-reviews/issues/42, we would appreciate your feedback, it's definitely something doable but we are not really sure how this should work exactly. For example, if it should be a single url or urls to all pages from the project? Should we support the navigation, so that the reviewer can just preview the site as a regular end user or rather we could display some kind of floating navigation widget with a list of project items? Please add your thoughts to the github issue. That would help us a lot!

1) Will be improved a bit more soon.

2) Has just been implemented in v0.5.0 https://nuget.episerver.com/package/?id=Advanced.CMS.AdvancedReviews&v=0.5.0

More info here: https://advanced-cms.org/blog/2019-11-24--project-preview/

Hi Greg Wiecheć & Bart Sekuła,

First of all, its a great component you have developed, it helping us a lot. 

We have a suggestion for this tool like, Will it be possible to have "View as" functionality as we have in our Episerver edit mode where editor can select visitor group to see specific version of a page.

We tried to connect with Episerver regarding this and they redirected us to you.

Best Regards,

Sanket Mahimkar

Sanket,

Could you please report an issue here?

https://github.com/advanced-cms/advanced-reviews/issues

Thanks

Has anyone had any luck using the review avatars functionality? I can't seem to get it to work. I've created a folder under the Media tab within 'For All Sites' called 'User Avatar'. Below that, I have uploaded an image with my username.jpg but I'm not seeing any results.

Am I doing something wrong?

Cheers.

Hi,  This is a very useful add-on, we have a lot of folks who need to review content but don't need to lear the CMS.  Question:  Is there ae way to save the comments that external reviewers add?  Once the editor resolves the concerns and resloves the pin the comments are gone.  Is there a setting or am I missing something. 

Thank you for your help.

Regards

Do you mean this?

Or you would like to store the comments permanently somewhere across versions?

Hey, 

Thank you for responding,  the first snapshot would be great to keep but it appears once the content is published you no longer see the advanced review comments, correct me if I am wrong on that.  If I am correct then I would be looking to store the comments permanently somewhere.  

Thanks again for you assistance.

You can always change the version in the version gadget so that you can go back to previous comments.

Is that acceptable for you?

That is perfect!  Thank you for you help. 

Hello! I've just discovered this. This is awesome. Quick question, can it also be used in Commerce Cloud? Thanks!

Hi,

I am using advanced reviewers version 0.9.1. The add-on worked perfectly fine locally. This is very useful add-on
I am currently testing the add-on on UAT and it gave me 500 error(Error: could not add component) while adding the external review link from gadget.

Could you please help me what has gone wrong ? 

Thanks in Advance
Snehal

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I could see that support for Commerce has been added but not in the version for .net 4 (net4_master). Is it possible request that it would be added in a 0.9.4 version?