June 26, 2015

Post to Newsfeed on behalf of another user (Server Object Model)

The below code will post to Newsfeed for any user account you specify. Activity appears the same as if the user manually posted. This could be helpful for populating Newsfeed from external activity, custom event receivers, workflow, and other developer sources. Enjoy!

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using Microsoft.Office.Server.Social;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using System;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Config
            string siteUrl = "http://mysite";
            string login = "i:0#.w|domain\\user";
            using (SPSite site = new SPSite(siteUrl))
            {
                // Context
                SPUser user = site.RootWeb.SiteUsers[login];
                SPUserToken token = user.UserToken;
                SPServiceContext ctx = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);

                using (new SPServiceContextScope(ctx))
                {
                    // Init
                    UserProfileManager upm = new UserProfileManager(ctx);
                    UserProfile prof = upm.GetUserProfile(user.LoginName);
                    SPSocialFeedManager mgr = new SPSocialFeedManager(prof, ctx, token);
                    SPSocialPostCreationData post = new SPSocialPostCreationData();

                    // Text
                    post.ContentText = "hello world, look at {0}!";
                    post.UpdateStatusText = true;

                    // Link
                    SPSocialDataItem [] link = new SPSocialDataItem [1];
                    link[0] = new SPSocialDataItem();
                    link[0].ItemType = SPSocialDataItemType.Link;
                    link[0].Text = "My Cool Link";
                    link[0].Uri = new Uri("http://www.google.com");
                    post.ContentItems = link;

                    // Save
                    SPSocialThread thread = mgr.CreatePost(null, post);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

using Microsoft.Office.Server.Social;

using Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles;

using Microsoft.SharePoint;

using System;

using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

// Config

string siteUrl = "http://mysite";

string login = "i:0#.w|domain\\user";

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(siteUrl))

{

// Context

SPUser user = site.RootWeb.SiteUsers[login];

SPUserToken token = user.UserToken;

SPServiceContext ctx = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);

using (new SPServiceContextScope(ctx))

{

// Init

UserProfileManager upm = new UserProfileManager(ctx);

UserProfile prof = upm.GetUserProfile(user.LoginName);

SPSocialFeedManager mgr = new SPSocialFeedManager(prof, ctx, token);

SPSocialPostCreationData post = new SPSocialPostCreationData();

// Text

post.ContentText = "hello world, look at {0}!";

post.UpdateStatusText = true;

// Link

SPSocialDataItem [] link = new SPSocialDataItem [1];

link[0] = new SPSocialDataItem();

link[0].ItemType = SPSocialDataItemType.Link;

link[0].Text = "My Cool Link";

link[0].Uri = new Uri("http://www.google.com");

post.ContentItems = link;

// Save

SPSocialThread thread = mgr.CreatePost(null, post);

}

References

October 1, 2014

How to Follow a site URL with PowerShell in SharePoint 2013

Background

While migrating from SharePoint 2010 to 2013 we needed to take MyLinks and replace with new Social Site Following. Given a CSV with user names and site URLs I researched PowerShell options for programmatically making users follow sites. Now we can pre-populate Follow Sites before launch. The below code did the trick.

Code

Function AddSiteToUserFollow ($siteUrl, $userName) {
	# Load site and user profile service
	$site = Get-SPSite $siteUrl
	$serviceContext = Get-SPServiceContext($site)
	$profileManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($serviceContext)

	if ($profileManager.UserExists($userName)) {
		# Load user profile
		$userProfile = $profileManager.GetUserProfile($userName)
		
		# Load social following manager
		$followingManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFollowingManager($userProfile, $serviceContext)
		
		# Prepare following object
		$actorInfo = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialActorInfo
		$actorInfo.ContentUri = $site.Url
		$actorInfo.AccountName = $userProfile.AccountName
		$actorInfo.ActorType = "Site"
		
		# Add to followed sites
		$followingManager.Follow($actorInfo)
	}
}

AddSiteToUserFollow "http://sp15" "demo\sptest1"

Function AddSiteToUserFollow ($siteUrl, $userName) {

# Load site and user profile service

$site = Get-SPSite $siteUrl

$serviceContext = Get-SPServiceContext($site)

$profileManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($serviceContext)

if ($profileManager.UserExists($userName)) {

# Load user profile

$userProfile = $profileManager.GetUserProfile($userName)

# Load social following manager

$followingManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFollowingManager($userProfile, $serviceContext)

# Prepare following object

$actorInfo = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialActorInfo

$actorInfo.ContentUri = $site.Url

$actorInfo.AccountName = $userProfile.AccountName

$actorInfo.ActorType = "Site"

# Add to followed sites

$followingManager.Follow($actorInfo)

}

AddSiteToUserFollow "http://sp15" "demo\sptest1"

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References

Amit Vasu – How to Unfollow all the sites with powershell script at sharepoint 2013

Support

If the target user does not yet have a MySite created you could see the below error. The fix is simply to have them visit MySite – or – to upgrade their site collection from 2010 to 2013.

Exception calling “Follow” with “1” argument(s): “No personal site exists for the current user, and no further information is available. Internal type name: Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.SocialDataStoreException. Internal error code: 1.”

February 2, 2011

Note Board–Comment on external sites

While reviewing the new social features I noticed this interesting hyperlink on the “My Profile” page. It allows users to bookmark a special link which they can use to extend “I like It” and “Tags & Notes” features beyond SharePoint to comment on external websites.

I was curious to look under the hood and understand how this could be done technically.

A complete JavaScript function is added to your bookmark in the URL field and executes when clicked. The browser context holds the external site’s detail and is passed to SharePoint as GET parameter in the URL. There is a safety check for SharePoint sites. If the dialog function exists (CORE.JS) then we can assume we are on a SharePoint page and display the dialog instead of a full page.

The special character escaping is very clever and gives us a single line of text which JavaScript can execute.

ORIGINAL

javascript:var%20d=document,l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,du='http:u002fu002fsp2010:8080u002f_layoutsu002fSocialDataFrame.aspx',u=du+'?Title='+e(d.title)+'&Src=bm'+'&DisplayUrl='+e(l.href)+'&Url='+e(l.href); if (typeof(OpenTagDialog)=='function') {    OpenTagDialog(du);}else{    if(!window.open(u,null,'toolbar=0,status=0,resizable=0,scrollbars=1,width=650,height=400')) {        l.href=u;    }}void(0);

javascript:var%20d=document,l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,du='http:u002fu002fsp2010:8080u002f_layoutsu002fSocialDataFrame.aspx',u=du+'?Title='+e(d.title)+'&Src=bm'+'&DisplayUrl='+e(l.href)+'&Url='+e(l.href); if (typeof(OpenTagDialog)=='function') { OpenTagDialog(du);}else{ if(!window.open(u,null,'toolbar=0,status=0,resizable=0,scrollbars=1,width=650,height=400')) { l.href=u; }}void(0);

SPACED FOR EASY READING

javascript:
var%20d=document,
l=d.location,
e=encodeURIComponent,
du='http:u002fu002fsp2010:8080u002f_layoutsu002fSocialDataFrame.aspx',
u=du+'?Title='+
e(d.title)+
'&Src=bm'+
'&DisplayUrl='+
e(l.href)+
'&Url='+
e(l.href);
 
if (typeof(OpenTagDialog)=='function') {
    OpenTagDialog(du);
}
else
{
    if(!window.open(u,null,'toolbar=0,status=0,resizable=0,scrollbars=1,width=650,height=400')) {
        l.href=u;
    }
}
void(0);

javascript:

var%20d=document,

l=d.location,

e=encodeURIComponent,

du='http:u002fu002fsp2010:8080u002f_layoutsu002fSocialDataFrame.aspx',

u=du+'?Title='+

e(d.title)+

'&Src=bm'+

'&DisplayUrl='+

e(l.href)+

'&Url='+

e(l.href);

if (typeof(OpenTagDialog)=='function') {

OpenTagDialog(du);

}

else

{

if(!window.open(u,null,'toolbar=0,status=0,resizable=0,scrollbars=1,width=650,height=400')) {

l.href=u;

}

void(0);

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