Overlay Communities components overlay-communities-components

The intention of overlaying a default component is to alter the appearance or behavior of a component globally, for all relative references to the component. It relies on the nature of sling to resolve to the /apps folder before searching in the /libs folder. Thus the path to the component is identical to the path to the default component, except it is in the /apps folder and not the /libs folder.

Example example

Overlay comments component

Suppose you would like to modify the comment feature so it matches the design of your website, by changing the comment header so it no longer displays the avatar for any comment. The solutions for hiding the avatar are either using CSS, or, as described here, overlaying the header.jsp in the apps folder so the HTML containing the avatar is never sent to the client.

To overlay comments, you must:

Overlay notifications emails

Suppose you want to customize the message of email notifications, you can do so by overlaying the templates at /libs/settings/community/templates/email/html.

For example, suppose you want to edit the mentions emails notifications (for a specific Communities component where UGC is created). In such cases, add an if condition for verb mention in the templates of the components for which you enabled the @mentions support.

{{#equals this.verb "mention"}}\
    A new mention <a href="{{objectUrl}}">comment</a> {{#if this.target.properties.[jcr:title]}}to the article "{{{target.displayName}}}" {{/if}}was added by {{{user.name}}} on {{dateUtil this.published format="EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z"}}.\n \
{{/equals}}\

To modify the email notifications template for @mention in blog comments, place out of the box template at: /libs/settings/community/templates/email/html/social.journal.components.hbs.comment/en