Showing Birthdays and Job Anniversaries in the Newsfeed
In our project we have a requirement to show birthdays and job anniversaries in the Newsfeed. The solution is simple (when you know it) but there has not been any information about it online, until today. I want to share a few lines of PowerShell code to enable Anniversary notifications in the Newsfeed. This desired piece of code was written by my colleague Emma Degerman. Enjoy:
$job = Get-SPTimerJob | ? {
$_.TypeName -like "*.UserProfileChangeJob"
}
$job.GenerateAnniversaries = $true
$job.Schedule = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSchedule]::FromString("hourly between 55 and 55")
$job.Update()The code retrieves the Timer Job that changes User Profiles, sets “GenerateAnniversaries” to true, then it updates the schedule to run it before the Activity Feed Timer Job and updates it. By the way, it is only applicable for SharePoint On Premises.
Get all comments
If you try to get comments quantity for a url, you may wonder, why there is only quantity of the comments which the current user has posted:
public int GetNumberOfNewsPageComments
(SPSite currentSite, string pageUrl, int max)
{
var serviceContext =
SPServiceContext.GetContext(currentSite);
var socialCommentManager =
new SocialCommentManager(serviceContext);
var comments = socialCommentManager
.GetComments(new Uri(pageUrl), max);
if (comments != null)
{
return comments.Length;
}
return -1;
}
```The solution is to impersonate the SPSite object with an account who has the rights to manage social data. Give this permission to the account in CA - Application Management - Service Applications - User Profile Service. [](https://sharepointkunskap.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/manage-social-data.png)SocialCommentWebPart
Lägg till en kommentarruta i din sida. Gör det lite till webb2.0. Här finns lite info. På denna sida står det hur man kan lägga till webparten mha xml. You can even provision a social comment webpart like it is done in my site:
<File Url="person.aspx" Type="Ghostable">
<AllUsersWebPart WebPartZoneID="MiddleLeftZone" WebPartOrder="3">
<!\[CDATA\[
<WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2">
<Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly>
<TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.SocialCommentWebPart</TypeName>
<Title>$Resources:spscore,SocialComment\_WebPart\_Title</Title>
<Description>$Resources:spscore,SocialComment\_WebPart\_Description</Description>
<PartOrder>3</PartOrder>
<FrameType>TitleBarOnly</FrameType>
<AllowMinimize>true</AllowMinimize>
<AllowRemove>true</AllowRemove>
<IsVisible>true</IsVisible>
</WebPart>
\]\]>
</AllUsersWebPart>
</File>