Twitter Widget for IBM Connections

The IBM® Connections Twitter widget allows a user to share their twitter feed from within their profile.

 

The widget uses a profile extension to capture the twitter username and then calls the twitter API when a user clicks on the widget.  this widget is available free of charge and we will provide support assistance via email.  If you are interested in this widget the please contact us at [email protected].

13 responses so far

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  • pierre milcent

    Great !!

  • http://www.lbenitez.com luis Benitez

    Thanks for doing this! This is great!!! Did you guys give any thought at just hosting the widget XML on your own server so that users wouldn’t have to install anything extra on their server? For example, you could make the widgetDef:

    And connections would just retrieve the widget xml from your server, and run the widget from your server.

    Let me know.

    • Michael Ransley

      We did consider hosting the widget onto our servers but decided against it for the main reasons:

      The clients would have had to have servers that had internet access. Based on my experience I am not sure that this is generally the case.
      Clients would have needed to trust the widget ongoing and trust our ability to keep it active, they may not have liked this dependency.
      Clients would have needed to modify their AJAX Proxy to all get requests to my servers (or everywhere). This may not have been an issue for some but may have for others.

      Consequently, we decided to publish the widget as an EAR file.

  • http://www.lbenitez.com luis Benitez

    Also, will you be submitting this to the catalog?? :) http://catalog.lotus.com

    • Michael Ransley

      Of course – I have two widgets currently being approved, I will publish this one there shortly.

  • Nacho Sanchez

    Sweeet!

    Thanks a lot for the widget!

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  • David Teboul

    cool; nice feature, its really illustrates how Connections is an extensible platform. Congrats!

  • http://blog.robertfarstad.com Robert Farstad

    Hi. Great widget!
    Had issue with the label. It won’t work unless I use the labelKey=”label.contactInformation.extattr.twitterName”

    Does this apply to everyone? If so, you should change the documentation to use this:

    instead of this:

    :-)

  • http://blog.robertfarstad.com Robert Farstad

    ahh, the “greater than” and “smaller than” brackets dissapeared in my code examples. Pasting in without the > and <

    Change from this:

    extensionAttribute showLabel=”true” editable=”true” bundleIdRef=”justnudge” extensionIdRef=”twitterName” /

    To this:

    extensionAttribute showLabel=”true” labelKey=”label.contactInformation.extattr.twitterName” editable=”true” bundleIdRef=”justnudge” extensionIdR
    ef=”twitterName”/

    :-)

  • http://blog.robertfarstad.com Robert Farstad

    And now, finally, with the brackets, hehe:

    <extensionAttribute showLabel=”true” editable=”true” bundleIdRef=”justnudge” extensionIdRef=”twitterName” />

    To this:

    <extensionAttribute showLabel=”true” labelKey=”label.contactInformation.extattr.twitterName” editable=”true” bundleIdRef=”justnudge” extensionIdR
    ef=”twitterName” />

    • Michael Ransley

      Hello Robert,

      Thanks for the information, I have updated the post with your information. I must admit that the structure of those extension attributes and the label key is rather confusing, thanks for working it out.

      Michael.