Comment area not showing

[st0rmchaser]

For four days I went over my settings and honestly I do not know what is wrong but the comment section isn't showing at all.  I have the newest release.  Ideas? 

[phill104]

Can we have a link to your site please so we can take a look.

[Αndré]

Comments can be enabled/disabled for each user group in the groups manager.

[st0rmchaser]

I managed to get the comments working.  Thanks.  But I made a regular user and after testing upload and clicking the continue button it said my test user does not have permission to do this...blah blah  but it did upload the three pics.

[Αndré]

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I just splitted your last post.

[st0rmchaser]

I just went in and enabled the show intermediate photos and used the Admin tool to rebuild my thumbnails and intermediate photos.  No one liked the popup when they clicked the thumb so I figured it would be the best thing to do. 

[Αndré]

I assume you disabled the config option "Go directly from thumbnail to full-sized image", as the config option "Create intermediate pictures" doesn't affect what you described.

[st0rmchaser]

I did not disable anything else that I know of.  But as a note here even though I like Coppermine when it comes to the back end I find myself confused and hating it.  I believe if it was less confusing in the back end things would be OK with this CMS.  Honestly I have to leave the website, and give it a break for a half hour then go back and try again.  So really I can't tell you what I did right in the back end I was just disabling and enabling until I got it working.

[Αndré]

Actually there are just 3 possibilities why a user doesn't see the comment area I can think of:

• The user (respectively the user group he belongs to) has no permission to add comments
• The user (respectively the user group he belongs to) has no permission to access the intermediate-sized pages
• You enabled the not recommended config option Go directly from thumbnail to full-sized image

[phill104]

As with any package it does take a bit of time to learn. There are a lot of improvements in back end functionality planned for a later release but with all these things the more functionality that will be added the more complex things may appear. Hopefully we can consider the design to make things a little clearer.

Please take time to read through the extensive docs as these will certainly make things a lot clearer for you.