I need to add custom notifications to the personal Newsfeed on people's MySites. I found several tutorials and code examples for SharePoint 2010 on the net and tried to do the same with SharePoint 2013. They're all about creating ActivityEvents with the ActivityManager.
Here's the code I tried:
var targetSite = new SPSite("URL to MySite webapp");
SPServiceContext context = SPServiceContext.GetContext(targetSite);
var userProfileManager = new UserProfileManager(context);
var ownerProfile = userProfileManager.GetUserProfile("domain\\user1");
var publisherProfile = userProfileManager.GetUserProfile("domain\\user2");
var activityManager = new ActivityManager(ownerProfile, context);
Entity publisher = new MinimalPerson(publisherProfile).CreateEntity(activityManager);
Entity owner = new MinimalPerson(ownerProfile).CreateEntity(activityManager);
ActivityEvent activityEvent = ActivityEvent.CreateActivityEvent(activityManager, 17, owner, publisher);
activityEvent.Name = "StatusMessage";
activityEvent.ItemPrivacy = (int)Privacy.Public;
activityEvent.Owner = owner;
activityEvent.Publisher = publisher;
activityEvent.Value = "HELLOOOO";
activityEvent.Commit();
ActivityFeedGatherer.BatchWriteActivityEvents(new List<ActivityEvent> { activityEvent }, 0, 1);
The Id 17 in the CreateActivityEvent function is for the StatusMessage activity type, which is layouted like {Publisher} says: {Value} in the ressource files, so I provide the Value property of my ActivityEvent.
The code runs without any exception and in the User Profile Service Application_ProfileDB database I can see the right entries appear in the ActivityEventsConsolidated table.
But the activity is not visible in the activity feed, neither on the Owner's one, nor on the Publisher's one, even though these people follow each other. I ran the Activity Feed Job in the CA manually to update the activity feed.
Also, I tried to do the same with custom ActivityTypes with own ressource files, same result: The entry in the ActivityEventsConsolidated table (or ActivityEventsPublished if Owner=Publisher) appear, but no entries on the MySite.
Can anyone help?
I found the solution for this problem myself.
In Central Administration, Setup MySites, you have to enable the Enable SharePoint 2010 activity migration setting in the Newsfeed section in order to support SP1010 legacy activities in SP2013.
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I am getting unexpected error while trying to create post in Dynamics CRM. Below is the code:
Entity objEntity = new Entity("post");
objEntity["regardingobjectid"] = IncidentID;
objEntity["text"] = URLs;
objEntity["source"] = new OptionSetValue(2);
objEntity["type"] = new OptionSetValue(4);
Guid newPostID = lOrgService.Create(objEntity);
Please suggest what could be the problem.
It could be a multitude of things, which is hard to pinpoint based on the small amount of code you have submitted, but my best guess is that IncidentID is a GUID, where regardingobjectid should be an EntityReference.
Try replacing:
objEntity["regardingobjectid"] = IncidentID;
with
objEntity["regardingobjectid"] = new EntityReference("incident", IncidentID);
I am unable to change the client by updating the contact using crm 2011 sdk.Here is the code i am using to do that :
Entity contact = new Entity();
contact.LogicalName = "contact";
contact.Attributes = new AttributeCollection();
EntityReference clientLookup = new EntityReference();
clientLookup.Id = NewClientBId;
clientLookup.LogicalName = "account";
contact.Attributes.Add("parentcustomerid", clientLookup);
contact.Attributes.Add("contactid", workItem.Id);
SynchronousUtility.UpdateDynamicEntity(CrmConnector.Service, contact);
The code runs fine without any error but when i go to web portal and check the record ,it still points to the old account though updated the modofication time stamp.I also checked the sql profiler query which shows up as below :
exec sp_executesql N'update [ContactBase] set
[ModifiedOn]=#ModifiedOn0, [ModifiedBy]=#ModifiedBy0,
[ModifiedOnBehalfBy]=NULL where ([ContactId] =
#ContactId0)',N'#ModifiedOn0 datetime,#ModifiedBy0
uniqueidentifier,#ContactId0
uniqueidentifier',#ModifiedOn0='2013-07-04
09:21:02',#ModifiedBy0='2F8D969F-34AB-E111-9598-005056947387',#ContactId0='D80ACC4E-A185-E211-AB64-002324040068'
as can be seen above the column i have updated is not even there in the set clause of the update query.Can anyone help me with this ?
I tested your code and it works:
Entity contact = new Entity();
contact.LogicalName = "contact";
contact.Attributes = new AttributeCollection();
EntityReference clientLookup = new EntityReference();
clientLookup.Id = new Guid("3522bae7-5ae5-e211-9d27-b4b52f566dbc");
clientLookup.LogicalName = "account";
contact.Attributes.Add("parentcustomerid", clientLookup);
contact.Attributes.Add("contactid", new Guid("16dc4143-5ae5-e211-9d27-b4b52f566dbc"));
As you can see I used existing Id in my environment, and to perform the update I used
service.Update(contact);
Reasons why your code is not working:
NewClientBId is not the right account Guid
workItem.Id is not the right contact Guid
the function SynchronousUtility.UpdateDynamicEntity has errors
I am creating a pre event plugin for CRM 2011 that sets the account owner and updates all the child contacts with the same owner. The plugin is installed correctly and updates the main account record correctly but the child contact owner does not change . I have pushed the owner name into another field of the contact to check I have the correct details and that field is updating.
I'm sure its something to do with attaching the child contacts to the correct context but so far I have drawn a blank.
//Set new account owner - Works fine
account.OwnerId = new EntityReference(SystemUser.EntityLogicalName, ownerId);
//Pass the same owner into the contacts - Does not get updated
UpdateContacts(account.Id, ownerId, service, tracingService);
The system is successfully updating the account owner and the description label of the child record.
public static void UpdateContacts(Guid parentCustomerId, Guid ownerId, IOrganizationService service, ITracingService tracingService)
{
// Create the FilterExpression.
FilterExpression filter = new FilterExpression();
// Set the properties of the filter.
filter.FilterOperator = LogicalOperator.And;
filter.AddCondition(new ConditionExpression("parentcustomerid", ConditionOperator.Equal, parentCustomerId));
// Create the QueryExpression object.
QueryExpression query = new QueryExpression();
// Set the properties of the QueryExpression object.
query.EntityName = Contact.EntityLogicalName;
query.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(true);
query.Criteria = filter;
// Retrieve the contacts.
EntityCollection results = service.RetrieveMultiple(query);
tracingService.Trace("Results : " + results.Entities.Count);
SystemUser systemUser = (SystemUser)service.Retrieve(SystemUser.EntityLogicalName, ownerId, new ColumnSet(true));
tracingService.Trace("System User : " + systemUser.FullName);
XrmServiceContext xrmServiceContext = new XrmServiceContext(service);
for (int i = 0; i < results.Entities.Count; i++)
{
Contact contact = (Contact)results.Entities[i];
contact.OwnerId = new EntityReference(SystemUser.EntityLogicalName, systemUser.Id);
contact.Description = systemUser.FullName;
xrmServiceContext.Attach(contact);
xrmServiceContext.UpdateObject(contact);
xrmServiceContext.SaveChanges();
tracingService.Trace("Updating : " + contact.FullName);
}
}
The tracing service prints out everything I would expect. Do I need to also attach the system user and somehow attach the entity reference to the context?
Any help appreciated.
You have to make a separate web service call using AssignRequest to change the ownership of a record. Unfortunately you cannot just change the Owner attribute.
I think I was getting myself into all sorts of mess with this plugin as by default changing the account owner automatically changes the associated contacts owner. I was therefore trying to overwrite something that it was already doing.
By using the AssignRequest to set the account owner rather than the child records it worked fine. Credit given to Chris as he pointed me in the right direction.
All that was needed was to change the first line of my code to use AssignRequest and the entire UpdateContacts method became obselete.
We are using SharePoint Foundation 2010.
We have created a workflow that checks the status of a task list.
If we associate the workflow with the list in the SharePoint UI it works fine.
We were wondering how we could automatically associate it, maybe in the feature receiver code that sets ut the site?
// 1. create an instance of the SPWorkflowAssociation class
SPWorkflowAssociation workflowAssociation =
SPWorkflowAssociation.CreateListAssociation(workflowTemplate, associationName, taskList, historyList);
// 2. set start options
workflowAssociation.AllowManual = true;
workflowAssociation.AutoStartChange = false;
workflowAssociation.AutoStartCreate = false;
// 3. set additional association options (if any)
workflowAssociation.AssociationData = associationData;
// 4. add workflow association to the list
list.WorkflowAssociations.Add(workflowAssociation);
// 5. enable workflow association, so it is displayed in the user interface
workflowAssociation.Enabled = true;
As you may know, MOSS 2007 offers functionality to synchronize Active Directory properties to SharePoint UserProfile Properties. You can map AD properties to userProfile properties in
Shared Services > User Profile and Properties > View Profile properties (all the way at the bottom).
I'm currently investigating the possibility to synchronize modifications on userProfiles back to AD.
I'm new to SharePoint and struggling my way through its API's, but what I dug up so far, is that you can iterate to UserProfile changes and find out timestamps, old values, new values, etc.
string siteUrl = #"http://[siteUrl]/";
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite spsite = new Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite(url);
Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext serverContext = Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext.GetContext(spsite);
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager userProfileMgr = new Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager(serverContext);
var collection = userProfileMgr.GetChanges();
List<ProfilePropertyChange> changes = new List<ProfilePropertyChange>();
foreach (Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileChange change in collection)
{
if (change.ObjectType == Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ObjectTypes.SingleValueProperty)
{
var singleValue = change as Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileSingleValueChange;
string oldValue = singleValue.OldValue;
string newValue = singleValue.NewValue;
var profileProperty = singleValue.ProfileProperty;
DateTime modificationDate = singleValue.EventTime;
...
}
}
However, what I'm currently unable to discover, is programmatic access to the so called "Mapped Attribute" (the original property name in AD).
Can anybody point me to the SharePoint API that will reveale this information for me?
Many thanks
Steve Curran was kind enough to address my question on the MSDN forum:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/019c1e60-babb-4942-90e1-d33e924c7c73
Using the PropertyMapCollection you
may be able to look up the mapped AD
attribute given the Userprofile name.
DataSource ds = upcm.GetDataSource();
PropertyMapCollection pmc =
ds.PropertyMapping;
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.server.userprofiles.propertymapcollection%28office.12%29.aspx