How can I integrate Laconica update stream into SharePoint? - sharepoint

Question

I have Laconica (self hosted twitter) configured on my local intranet and would like to integrate the public stream into SharePoint site with a web part. How can I do this?

Answer 1

You can point an RSS Viewer web part at the laconi.ca public stream RSS feed and use this XSLT to ensure attractive output.
Result screen shot:
XSL transform:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl ddwrt msxsl rssaggwrt"
xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime"
xmlns:rssaggwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v3/rssagg/runtime"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:rssFeed="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:RSSAggregatorWebPart"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
xmlns:atom2="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"
xmlns:ddwrt2="urn:frontpage:internal"
xmlns:laconica="http://laconi.ca/ont/">
<xsl:param name="rss_FeedLimit">5</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="rss_ExpandFeed">false</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="rss_LCID">1033</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="rss_WebPartID">RSS_Viewer_WebPart</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="rss_alignValue">left</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="rss_IsDesignMode">True</xsl:param>
<xsl:template match="rdf:RDF">
<xsl:call-template name="RDFMainTemplate"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="RDFMainTemplate" xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
<xsl:variable name="Rows" select="rss:item"/>
<xsl:variable name="RowCount" select="count($Rows)"/>
<div class="slm-layout-main" >
<xsl:call-template name="RDFMainTemplate.body">
<xsl:with-param name="Rows" select="$Rows"/>
<xsl:with-param name="RowCount" select="count($Rows)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="RDFMainTemplate.body" xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
<xsl:param name="Rows"/>
<xsl:param name="RowCount"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$Rows">
<xsl:variable name="CurPosition" select="position()" />
<xsl:variable name="RssFeedLink" select="$rss_WebPartID" />
<xsl:variable name="CurrentElement" select="concat($RssFeedLink,$CurPosition)" />
<xsl:if test="($CurPosition <= $rss_FeedLimit)">
<xsl:element name="div">
<xsl:if test="($CurPosition mod 2 = 1)">
<xsl:attribute name="style"><![CDATA[background-color:#F9F9F9;]]></xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:element name="table">
<xsl:attribute name="cellpadding">0</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="border">0</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="style"><![CDATA[margin:0px;padding:0px;border-spacing:0px;background-color:transparent;]]></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:element name="tr">
<xsl:element name="td">
<xsl:attribute name="style"><![CDATA[vertical-align:top;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;]]></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="rowspan">2</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:element name="img">
<xsl:attribute name="src"><xsl:value-of select="laconica:postIcon/#rdf:resource"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="style"><![CDATA[margin:3px;height:48px;width:48px;]]></xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="td">
<xsl:attribute name="style"><![CDATA[vertical-align:top;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;]]></xsl:attribute>
<div>
<strong><xsl:value-of select="substring-before(rss:title, ':')"/></strong>
</div>
<div style="width:300px;overflow-x:hidden;">
<div>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(rss:title, ':')"/>
</div>
</div>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="tr">
<xsl:element name="td">
<xsl:attribute name="style"><![CDATA[padding:0px;background-color:transparent;]]></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:element name="a">
<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="rss:link"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDate(dc:date,number($rss_LCID),15)"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Answer 2

I like the RSS idea. Another option would be to create a Laconica plugin and hook the EndNoticeSave event to push notices to SharePoint.