PT Social Media

About the Social Media App

The Social Media application is built using the Application Development Framework (ADF).

Overview

The Social Media application provides a tool to allow your organizations social media live data streams from your Facebook Pages, your Twitter accounts and targeted Twitter keyword searches, your YouTube Channels and your WordPress blog posts to be combined in various configurations to be displayed in one or in various strategic locations on your CommonSpot site.

Requirements

ADF Library components that are required for the Calendar application:

• CEData_1_1
• CSData_1_1
• Data_1_1
• Date_1_1
• Forms_1_1
• UI_1_0
• Scripts_1_1
• JSON
• CCAPI

App v1.2 and higher also requires:

• CSContent_1_0
• Scheduler_1_0
• Utils_1_1

The ADF 1.5.x must be configured correctly for your site. The Site Configuration (ADF.cfc) wiki page has instructions for configuration.

Contents

The Social Media application contains the following:

• Custom Coding - various components and scripts.

• Custom Elements:
  • SocialMedia Selector - Custom Element
  • Facebook Pages - Custom Element
  • Twitter Accounts Keywords - Custom Element
  • WordPress Blogs - Custom Element
  • YouTube Channels - Custom Element
  • ptSocialMedia Configuration - Custom Element

• Custom Fields:
  • Video Size Calculator Field

Note: Elements may contain one or more: Render Handlers or Custom Field Types. They do NOT use Display Templates.

Pre-installation Considerations

The Application Development Framework (ADF) must be setup and configured on the server for the site that will be implementing the Social Media application. For detailed instructions follow the ADF Overview wiki page for Site Configurations.

This installation guide assumes that you have no Custom Elements and/or Metadata Forms with the names above. Before the install, remove any Custom Elements/Metadata Forms with the names listed in the "Contents" section above. (If you do not remove existing elements with these names, you may have difficulties during the installation.)

Installation Guides

Current ADF 2.5 Release Version:

• v3.2:
  • Version 3.2 Release Notes
  • Version 3.2 Install Guide
  • Version 3.2 Upgrade Guide (from v3.1)

IMPORTANT: The above versions of this application require ADF 2.5 or greater and CommonSpot 10.5.2 or 10.6.1 or greater.

Previous ADF 2.4.x Versions:

• v3.1:
  • Version 3.1 Release Notes
  • Version 3.1 Install Guide
  • Version 3.1 Upgrade Guide (from v3.0)

• v3.0:
  • Version 3.0 Release Notes
  • Version 3.0 Install Guide
  • Version 3.0 Upgrade Guide (from v2.2)

IMPORTANT: v3.x of this application requires ADF 2.0 or greater. ADF 2.4.x is recommended.

Previous ADF 1.8 Release Version:

• v2.2:
  • Version 2.2 Release Notes
  • Version 2.2 Install Guide
  • Version 2.2 Upgrade Guide (from v2.1)

IMPORTANT: v2.x of this application requires ADF 1.6 or greater. ADF 1.8.x is recommended.

Previous ADF 1.x Versions:

• v2.1:
  • Version 2.1 Release Notes
  • Version 2.1 Install Guide
  • Version 2.1 Upgrade Guide (from v2.0)

• v2.0:
  • Version 2.0 Release Notes
  • Version 2.0 Install Guide
  • Version 2.0 Upgrade Guide (from v1.2)

IMPORTANT: v2.x of this application requires ADF 1.6 or greater

• v1.2:
  • Version 1.2 Release Notes
  • Version 1.2 Install Guide
  • Version 1.2 Upgrade Guide (from v1.0 or v1.1)

• v1.1
  • Version 1.1 Release Notes
  • Version 1.1 Install Guide

• v1.0
  • Version 1.0 Release Notes
  • Version 1.0 Install Guide

IMPORTANT: v1.x of this application requires ADF 1.5 or greater

Getting Started Guide

• Getting Started

Features

The social media application provides the following features:

• Facebook Pages Data Stream
• Twitter Accounts and Keywords Data Stream
• YouTube Channels Data Stream
• WordPress Blogs Data Stream

Known Issues/Bugs

Found a bug, view the PT Social Media Issues page. Your issue not on the list? Then post it so the issue can be addressed.