adding twitter searches to dynamics ax 2012 role centers
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ADDING TWITTER SEARCHES TO ROLE
CENTERS
Dynamics AX | Role Centers | Twitter
Twitter is a great tool for research. I use it all the time to find new postings on topics that may be useful in my job. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just have your Twitter searches sent directly to your role center so you don’t have to open up Twitter separately?
In this example we will show how you can easily embed tour favorite Twitter streams into Role Centers in Dynamics AX 2012, making life just a little easier
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Find Your Twitter
Feed
The first step is to find the search term in Twitter that you want to embed in your Role Center.
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Convert the Search
into an RSS Feed
One of the API’s available within Twitter is the option to return your searches as an RSS feed. The syntax for the URL call is:
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q={search}
This will be the source that we will use in the Role Center.
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Add the RSS Feed
into the Role Center
Now that we have the RSS feed that we want to add to the Role Center, we can now add the RSS web part and display the search results.
From the Role Center, select the “Personalize Page” link.
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Add the RSS Feed
into the Role Center
This will open up the page designer. To add the Web Part to display the information, just click on the “Add a Web Part” link in the desired panel.
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Add the RSS Feed
into the Role Center
This will open up the Web Part Gallery. We want to add the RSS Viewer from the Content Rollup group.
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Add the RSS Feed
into the Role Center
Now that we have the RSS Viewer Web Part on our page, we just need to configure the feed properties.
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Add the RSS Feed
into the Role Center
We copy the URL from the Twitter Search feed that we created in the second step, and also we can update the number of posts to display as well.
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Add the RSS Feed
into the Role Center
Finally to make everything look tidy, we can update the Title of the Web Part to something a little more informational.
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Add the RSS Feed
into the Role Center
Now we have configured the web part, we can exit the edit mode.
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Twitter In Your Role
Center
How cool is this – the latest information is delivered directly to your Role Center
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