Creating powerful Site threaded discussions with Oracle Content Management Conversations API

The number one request when creating a blogging platform or portal on-top of Oracle Content Management is the ability to enable Community Comments against article posts - unfortunately there are no official components that Oracle supply to handle this today.

With that said OCM has a powerful Conversation Tool now built in (Previously known as Oracle Social Network & Ontrack prior that).

Oracle Content Management Conversations

The OOTB interface doesn't look very special but the capabilities of the Conversation API make it very powerful for creating a headless threaded discussion for sites.

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You can read up more on the Conversation API here - https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/content-cloud/rest-api-conversations/index.html

Features you can enable when writing a threaded discussion using the API:

Conversation Thread Creation
Enables you to create public or closed off private member conversation groups/huddles
Associate & Upload documents to a thread
Allow users to add documents, images to a comment in the thread
Parent Child Message hierarchy
Enable multilevel replies to comments
Flag a comment
Allows a user to flag a comment to an admin
Hashtag Support
Allows users to assign hashtags against comments that are searchable
User Tagging @user
Highlight a conversation to a user
Conversation reference
Add a reference to another conversation
Likes
Allow users to like a conversation or comment

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There is one limitation with this.
- all users who can comment will have to have an IDCS account associated with OCM.

If you do use the Conversation API - please connect; I'd love to see what you build and feel free to ping me on any questions.

Coming soon in a future blog post

Headless OCM Conversation Threaded discussion Sample webcomponent.
Toxicity classifier with Machine Learning to analyse comments and autoflag to admins