extending the my site activity feed with external blog posts
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Extending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts. Dutch Information Worker User Group 25 October 2012. Who is Bram?. SharePoint Architect @ Macaw Microsoft Certified Master SharePoint Server 2010 http:// bramdejager.wordpress.com @ bramdejager [email protected]. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Extending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
Dutch Information Worker User Group25 October 2012
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You’re the pilot. Take Control.
SharePoint Architect
Bram de Jager
SharePoint Architect @ MacawMicrosoft Certified Master SharePoint Server 2010http://bramdejager.wordpress.com @[email protected]
Who is Bram?
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Poll• Who had dinner?• Who are developers?• Who developed on social solutions?• Who played around with the Activity Feed API?• Who extended the Activity Feed for customer
based solutions?
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Agenda• User Profiles and My Site• Activity Feeds• Extending the Activity Feed• Demo
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USER PROFILES AND MY SITEExtending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
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User Profiles and My Site• User Profiles
– User Profile Service Application– Tight relation with MMS, BCS and Search– My Site Host (mandatory) provides My Profile and My
Newsfeed pages• My Site
– Personal Site Collection (personal storage)– “Content” tab on My Profile page
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Logical Architecture Components
My Site Host My Site Site Collections
My Web Application Web Application
UPA MMS Search Service Applications
My Networ
kPages / Navigation
MyProfile
MyConten
t
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ACTIVITY FEEDSExtending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
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Activity Feeds• Aggregates colleague activity as feed• Natively displays user profile changes, tagging
and notes activity• Security trimmed, you can only see what you are
allowed to see• Can be extended via Activity Feed API
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Data aggregation• Two types of activities
– User profile changes such as job title, colleague changes, shared interest and anniversary reminders
– Social feedback events such as tags, notes, ratings and personal blog posts
• Gathering by timer job and broadcasted to colleagues
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Timer Jobs• Activity Feed job (Hourly)• Pre-computes activities to be shown in users' activity
feeds.• Aggregates user profile changes and social feedback
• Activity Feed Cleanup job (Daily)– Cleans up pre-computed activities used in activity
feeds which are older than 14 days. This job does not affect the User Profile Change Log.
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Before and after Service Pack 1 (SP1)• Enable Activity Feed job
– RTM: disabled by default– SP1: enabled by default
• Additional setting in UPA » Setup My Sites
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Activity Feed types• Consolidated feed
– Activities from everything I trackhttp://<my>/_layouts/activityfeed.aspx?consolidated=true
• Published feed– My activities
http://<my>/_layouts/activityfeed.aspx– Activities by publisher
http://<my>/_layouts/activityfeed.aspx?publisher=<accountname>
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Consolidated feed• Activities from everything I track
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Activities I am following…• Activity feed depends on interests defined in Edit
Profile page• Custom activity applications will be shown here
as well
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Published feed• Account related activities / my activities
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EXTENDING THE ACTIVITY FEEDExtending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
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Extending activity feed• Why extend the activity feed?
– ECM activities within SharePoint environment– xRM/CRM activities– External data (WordPress, Facebook, Twitter)
• Activity Feed API for extending the activity feed– Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.dll– Microsoft.Office.Server.ActivityFeed namespace– API deprecated in SharePoint 2013!
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Activity feed architecture
Activity Feed - Profile DB
Change log - Profile DB
Social database
Custom Timer Job
Custom gatherer
Activity Timer JobProfile and social
gatherers
Activity Feed
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Activity Feed classesActivity
Application
Blog Activity Application
Activity Type
Blog Post Added
Comment Added
Activity Template
Type Display
Single Value Template
Multi Value Template
Activity Event
Event
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DEMO OVERVIEWExtending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
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Blog Activity Application
Activity Feed - Profile DB
Change log - Profile DB
Social database
Custom Timer JobActivity Timer JobProfile and social
gatherers
BlogPostTimerJob
Activity Feed
Custom gathererBlogPostGatherer
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Activity Templates• Type Display
– ActivityFeed_Blog_BlogPostAdded_Type_Display– “Posted a new blog post”
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Activity Templates• Single Value Template
– ActivityFeed_Blog_BlogPostAdded_SV_Template– “{Publisher} has written a new post {Link} on blog
{Link2}.”
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Activity Templates• Multi Value Template
– ActivityFeed_Blog_BlogPostAdded_MV_Template– “{Publisher} has written {Size} new posts on blog
{Link}. <br/> {List}”
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DEMO TIME!!Extending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
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Recap: Key Points• Activity Feed types
– Consolidated feed– Published feed
• Extending the activity feed– Don’t just add everything, like Twitter (overload
database)– Because you can, doesn’t mean you must!
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Resources• MSDN
– User Profiles and Social Data Code Sampleshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512773.aspx
– Microsoft.Office.Server.ActivityFeed namespace • Wes Hackett’s blog
– http://weshackett.com • SharePoint Guidance
– SharePoint Logger– http://spg.codeplex.com
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You’re the pilot. Take Control.
Bram de [email protected]
Macaw Beechavenue 140 1119 PR Schiphol-Rijk +31 20 8510 510 www.macaw.nl | www.cloudaviator.nl