How to enable users to edit or delete their comments in the Page Comments widget
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Issue
- Site members/Users are not able to delete or edit their own page comments on the Page Comments widget.
Environment
- Liferay Quarterly Releases, Liferay DXP, or Liferay Portal 6.2
Resolution
For DXP 2023.Q4 and above:
- Navigate to Control Panel > Instance Settings > Content and Data > Comments
- Set Always Editable by Owner to True and click Save.
After doing so, users will have permissions to edit their own discussion comments even if they do not have the permissions defined through the Site Member role.
For older versions of Liferay (6.2-7.4), the behavior is instead configured by adding the following to the environment's portal-ext.properties file:
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