Any update on this new release?

Could this be the week?

Let me know if you need a beta tester.

We actually haven't discussed moving to AF, but with all the bugs I think we definitely should look into that. As for how the AF integration works, basically if you enable AF Comments in a Publish article, when the first comment is added it will create a thread in the forum that article's parent category is assigned to, the first post will be title after the article, with the description of the article and a link to the article. The second post is that of the comment that was entered. After that when someone clicks on add comment it takes them to the forum thread for review/posting.

As for the release, our goal right now is a 12/1 release for Publish 5.3, as always that is subject to change, but we really want to get this release wrapped up.

You can see the integration between Publish and AF 4.0 on my site, www.lawsonguru.com.  (you don't need to register/login to see the forums, but you do need to register/login to see the articles).

Publish categories are linked to AF forums.

Here is an example of an uncommented article (see the 'Be the first to comment on this article' link at the bottom?):
http://www.lawsonguru.com/tabid/158/itemid/118/Deleting-a-GL-Budget-via-Excel-AddIns.aspx

When the user comments on the article, the article description and a link are added as a forum post, and the user's comments added as a reply to the post.  I'm very happy with the way that works.  Note, though, that the integration is "one way" from Publish to AF.  An enhancement I'd like to see is to be able to associate an existing article with an existing Forum post.

Here is an example of an article comment, from the forum perspective:
http://www.lawsonguru.com/Forums/tabid/96/forumid/1/postid/5369/view/topic/Default.aspx
and from the article perspective (see the 'Discuss this article' link at the bottom?):
http://www.lawsonguru.com/tabid/158/itemid/162/Uploading-to-Asset-Management-using-Lawsons-Excel.aspx

You are correct--the comments to a given article are not visible on the article detail page, only in the forum.

I agree that it would be a wonderful enhancement to be able to inject some of the forum comments into the article!

I'd also like to see the number of comments as well as be able to move the comments pane up within the article.

Actually, I think Chris is ignoring us...