I have a 8.0.2SP1 site with a system blog. The client wants to know what the subscribe button does but I can't find a description in the documentation. Right now when someone clicks to subscribe, they get an option for all posts or all comments -- that part makes sense but it seems to do nothing. The client is expecting an email if a new post is added. I can see in the documentation how community blogs work (by default it updates activity feed). I can find in the profile settings where you can specify delivery method for Group blogs and Colleague blogs. But no settings for system blogs.
Q: What does subscribing to a system blog do?
Q: Are there profile-level settings for how the system handles notifications for system blogs?
Subscribing to a blog will alert someone when a new post has been made. Subscribing to a specific post will allow the user to be notified if comments have been posted. These settings assume that you have setup an smtp server (relay) in your web.config. Under the hood there's no major differences between a blog you create under a regular folder, or a group/user. For setting the alerts on the root level blogs you should see a "web alerts" tab under the blog's properties
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I would like to receive browser notifications for all regular alerts (points, new message replies) as well as for new questions (but for defined tags only). Is that possible? I can't find any documentation regarding such thing.
I want to post a message on google plus business page. Is there any way to do this.
I am confused between interactive post, app activities and moment.
Should I use Moment to post on business page?
I go through google api site documents, but not getting any solutions.
Please let me know if there is any other way to post in google plus page.
It depends on exactly what you mean by "post" and by a "business page".
I'm assuming that the "business page" is one that is not associated with a Google App account. If you're meaning something that will show up on your stream, and that people who have you in a circle will see your post - there is no public API from Google that will do what you want. You need to work with one of their partners, such as HootSuite, to automatically share messages to your stream.
Interactive posts are ways that a visitor to your website can be prompted to share something from your site to their stream on Google+. These interactive posts include both a link to your site as well as an additional "call to action" button to an individual item from your site. It does not automate posts, although it can make some parts of it easier.
App activities and moments are the same thing. They are meant to record actions that take place on your website on Google+, but they do not directly share anything into your stream. Instead, they create an event in your Google+ profile that can be seen only by those you permit it to - you can then, if you wish, share that event to your stream. So while the moment can be generated automatically, it still requires manual action to share it.
Finally, if you have a page that is associated with a Google App account, you can create posts automatically, but those posts are limited in scope. They are only visible to, at most, other people in the same App Domain as the account. This is useful for using Google+ as a communication tool inside an organization, but not useful for communicating with customers, for example.
As the title denotes, looking for insight on reasons why an Interactive Post doesn't show up on any stream (user sharing the post, and to whomever the user is sharing it with).
Brief
Implement client side api of G+ interactive posts
This seems successful
application auth is requested and if granted is displayed in user's "applications list"
intended content, prefill text, etc. are all displayed when the trigger to initiate the share is invoked
no error indicators (that I know of) are displayed when the "Share" button is clicked by the user (the act of actually posting the share).
it is visible in some way only to Google - explained below
Findings
It seems Google is blocking the post because even though the share isn't posted on any stream (origin nor target), I received a warning about violating Google policies as displayed below, indicating that the (http) post was sent/submitted...
further inspection of network activity also displays what looks like (a guess on my part) a spam score (of 8), somehow already pre-determined (another guess on my part):
https://apis.google.com/u/0/_/sharebox/post/?spam=8&hl=en&ozv=...
Questions
Primary question is why would interactive posts not appear on stream? Any debugging tool out there?
IF my guess on spam blocking is accurate, then why would such be the case? For interactive posts (which somehow inherently is a case of some user "promoting" something in the first place) - eg: with a "BUY" calltoactionlabel?
IF my other guess on the content being "pre-tagged" as spam, how/why would that occur. I didn't include it above, but it is a "product page" - the idea of it, which isn't new nor revolutionary, is to give the opportunity for a user to "share" an item he/she just purchased, say in a normal checkout flow?
It's my assumption that implementation was done correctly, no errors reported, etc. - or perhaps it wasn't? Though it seems unlikely, it's "grasping at straws" time..
Further testing/debugging seems unwise given the warning of policy violation - and yes, I've stopped further dev on this to prevent harming my accounts (one personal, one work, both used above for testing this API).
Thanks for any assistance/input.
Note: I've posted this on G+ community (no luck so far) so once this is resolved I'll share the answer there too (or vice versa).
It looks like you are posting the Interactive post from http://localhost or from any private domain url. Google crawler can only allow interactive post from public domain.
As from their website -
Important: Interactive posts will not work when PhotoHunt is hosted at http://localhost:8888 because the Google crawler can only access public URLs to get microdata about the content of the post. In the case of PhotoHunt for Java, you can deploy your app to appspot.com as a public Google App Engine app.
I am using 8.0.1 SP1.
I have not been able to find a definitive answer for this so far. Does the messaging server control have an option for notifying the user via email that a message has been sent to them? Email is set up for the site and working. In my site, I have community notifications set to email in my profile. I have ek_EnableMessageBoardEmail set to true in web.config. I do realize that there is a difference between message board and the messaging server control but I am trying everything. Is this possible without coding the functionality? If not, can someone point me toward some starter code?
I also posted this question at http://dev.ektron.com/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=41480
Thanks.
Zach
No this is not possible. The Ektron Messaging control can only send internal messages within the CMS to other users. The server control produces markup that looks a bit like it might be email but it is not.
The Messaging control does have the ability to send an email to a community group but not individual users.
See Ektron's documentation here.
You will have to code your own custom solution to this.
According to this blog post the new messaging system should be accessible via the API (fql/graph) for non developer account as of end of November. It still gives OAuthException with message "You must be a developer of the application".
I was unable to find any updates on this issue from Facebook or other sources. Anyone knows what is going on with this and when will it be accessible?
There was a bug opened on the subject, anyone who has interest in this might consider promoting it.
Going to answer my own question, according to the response on the bug seems like the official answer is:
"We said it would be published but it wasn't, so just wait until we say it will be published again".
Are you trying to read messages or send them? It's still not possible to send them but reading them should work for any app now