Social Architecture of SharePoint 2013 for Developers

Social Architecture of SharePoint

Paul J. SwiderCTO

Level: Intermediate

Agenda Community Sites

Template Creation and ManagementDiscussions and ModerationDiscovery and MembershipReputation Model

Agenda (Continued) My Site

Microblogging, statusFollowingTasks

OM and Programming API’s

MY SITE

My Site Host – Home Page

Profile (person.aspx)

My Site Hubs

• Hubs are found in global navigation• Newsfeed (security trimmed)

– Following – Everyone– Mentions

• SkyDrive– Recent Documents on Office 365

• Sites

Search Posts and Feeds

• Can be used instead of REST• Developer topics

Following Sites and People

• Following Infrastructure is the same as 2010– Stored in User Profile Database– 2 Million Items per UP Database

• Integration with Consolidated Feeds Web part

• People can see who are their followers

Following People

• Ability for users to receive system notifications for a site

• Site conversations and activities are received in consolidated feeds web part

• Site Admin can control at library level

Following Sites

• Track and get information on document changes and activities

• When a document or metadata changes new system feed is posted– People following get notified– Not meant to replace alerts

Document Following

Document Call Out

• A single aggregated view of all SharePoint, Exchange and Project task items

• Work Management Service Application• Aggregated tasks can be synced with

Exchange

My Tasks

My Site, Profile Data

• Data stored in personal site and velocity cache• Two lists: Microfeed list and Social List• Profile database still used for following people and tags

• Used to store user generated activities• Users control system activities which

show as activity feeds• User activity available to all authenticated

users, some system activities are security trimmed

• New events trigger a new item in the list and the Velocity Cache

Microfeed List

Distributed Cache in SharePoint 2013

• Aggregation of most social activities• Doesn’t work without a My Site• Can create limited social experience

Social List

COMMUNITY SITES

Communities

Communities Design

• Community site template Id=62• CommunityEventReceiver fires when activated• Asynchronous updates - beware of save

conflicts• The Community Site provides a forum

experience and reputation model. It does not expose a specific API– Use SharePoint site and list APIs directly to extend its

functionality– Discussion Board Template Type = 108

Community Template

Categories

• Ratings and comments not in socialdb• Reputation is based on Community silos• Can use Feature Stapling to add

reputation functionality across the communities

Ratings and Reputation

• Points• Configurable• Gift Badges

Badges

OM AND API FOR MY SITE AND SOCIAL

My Site Social API

• Working with social feeds• Following people and content (documents, sites, and tags),

• Working with social data• Working with user properties. • Add social features to a custom app or extend the social features

Extending Social Features

API’s for Social Features

2013 App Model

App Permission Scopes

UserProfiles and People• New client-side UserProfile Object

• Provides methods you can use to create a personal site

• Does not contain the user properties that the server-side UserProfile object contains.

• Use the PersonProperties object and its UserProfileProperties property for Server Side

New Objects for People• SocialActor object represents users (and

other entities) for feed and following activities• SPSocialActor used for server OM

• PersonProperties object contains general user properties and user profile properties

• PersonProperties is the primary API for accessing user properties from client-side code

• CSOM: SocialFollowingManager• JSOM: SocialFollowingManager• REST:

http://<mySiteUri>/_api/social.following• SSOM: SPSocialFollowingManager

Instance of Following Manager

• CSOM: GetFollowers• JSOM: getFollowers• REST: GET

http://<mySiteUri>/_api/social.following/my/Followers

• SSOM: GetFollowers

GetFollowers

• CSOM: Follow (StopFollowing)• JSOM: follow (stopFollowing)• REST: POST

http://<mySiteUri>/_api/social.following/Follow (http://<mySiteUri>/_api/social.following/StopFollowing) and pass the actor parameter in the request body

• SSOM: Follow (StopFollowing)

Follow an Item

• http://<mySiteUri>/– Maps back to My Site host

• http://<siteUri>/– Any site within the scope of the User Profiles service

application

• _Api always on the right of the path

REST API

REST Services for Social Features• Social features in the REST service• http://<mySiteUri>/_api/social.feed• http://<mySiteUri>/_api/social.following• http://<siteUri>/_api/

SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager

• HTML and JavaScript control• Supports Claims• Same Properties as Server Control• SPClientPeoplePicker

Client-side People Picker

• // Get the people picker object from the page.

var peoplePicker = this.SPClientPeoplePicker.SPClientPeoplePickerDict.peoplePickerDiv_TopSpan;

• // Get information about all users.

var users = peoplePicker.GetAllUserInfo(); var userInfo = ''; for (var i = 0; i < users.length; i++) { var user = users[i]; for (var userProperty in user) { userInfo += userProperty + ': ' + user[userProperty] + '<br>'; } } $('#resolvedUsers').html(userInfo);

Code for People Picker

Deprecated Features

• Microsoft.Office.Server.ActivityFeed

• Activityfeed.aspx replaces with REST API

• Recent Activities Web Part replace with Newsfeed web Part

Deprecated Features

• Some Activity events

• SocialFollowingManager replaces much of Colleagues

• Organization Profiles

• My Links

THANK YOU!

Questions?

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