sharepoint architect bram de jager 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 Group25 October 2012
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?
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?
Agenda
• User Profiles and My Site• Activity Feeds• Extending the Activity Feed• Demo
USER PROFILES AND MY SITEExtending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
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
Logical Architecture Components
My Site HostMy Site Site Collections
My Web Application Web Application
UPA MMS Search Service Applications
My Networ
kPages / Navigation
MyProfile
MyConten
t
ACTIVITY FEEDSExtending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
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
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
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.
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
Activity Feed types
• Consolidated feed– Activities from everything I track
http://<my>/_layouts/activityfeed.aspx?consolidated=true
• Published feed– My activities
http://<my>/_layouts/activityfeed.aspx
– Activities by publisherhttp://<my>/_layouts/activityfeed.aspx?publisher=<accountname>
Consolidated feed
• Activities from everything I track
Activities I am following…
• Activity feed depends on interests defined in Edit Profile page
• Custom activity applications will be shown here as well
Published feed
• Account related activities / my activities
EXTENDING THE ACTIVITY FEEDExtending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
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!
Activity feed architecture
Activity Feed - Profile DB
Change log - Profile DB
Social database
Custom Timer Job
Custom gatherer
Activity Timer Job
Profile and social gatherers
Activity Feed
Activity Feed classes
Activity Application
Blog Activity Application
Activity Type
Blog Post Added
Comment Added
Activity Template
Type Display
Single Value Template
Multi Value Template
Activity Event
Event
DEMO OVERVIEWExtending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
Blog Activity Application
Activity Feed - Profile DB
Change log - Profile DB
Social database
Custom Timer JobActivity Timer Job
Profile and social gatherers
BlogPostTimerJob
Activity Feed
Custom gathererBlogPostGatherer
Activity Templates
• Type Display– ActivityFeed_Blog_BlogPostAdded_Type_Display– “Posted a new blog post”
Activity Templates
• Single Value Template– ActivityFeed_Blog_BlogPostAdded_SV_Template– “{Publisher} has written a new post {Link} on blog
{Link2}.”
Activity Templates
• Multi Value Template– ActivityFeed_Blog_BlogPostAdded_MV_Template– “{Publisher} has written {Size} new posts on blog
{Link}. <br/> {List}”
DEMO TIME!!Extending the My Site activity feed with external blog posts
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!
Resources
• MSDN – User Profiles and Social Data Code Samples
http://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
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