Form Submission on Headless Item

2025/03/24 4:06 PM

If I have an article in a Headless CMS, and each article has a list of comments submitted via a form (with fields like username, email, and message), how can I retrieve all the comments along with the article details in a single GraphQL query? Additionally, the CMS should allow admin to toggle comment visibility (show/hide). What’s the best practice for this? should i create the Form ? or maybe create a custom Modules ?

Environment

  • Xperience by Kentico version: [30.1.3]
  • .NET version: [8]
  • Execution environment: [SaaS]

Answers

2025/03/24 5:11 PM
Accepted answer

I can think of 2 options

  1. Store comments as a custom object type, give them a reference to the article (like CommentArticleID) and then create a custom ASP.NET Core API endpoint that returns all comments for a given article. Marketers can manage the comments in a custom application. The Kentico Community Portal stores Q&A discussion answers as a custom object type.
  2. Store comments as content items linked through a field on the article content item. This would expose them through the headless channel (GraphQL API). Marketers can manage them as normal content items linked to the articles.

Either way you will need a custom API endpoint to handle requests from your external application when users submit comments - it's up to you how you want to store them.

I do not recommend using the Form Builder and form submissions - that's not what this feature is designed for.

2025/03/25 3:14 PM

Can you give me step by step how to do options 1 ?
I already create module named Article Comment, Created Class, Database columns:UI Form:

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