Is there any OOB way to track the Social Share thru Fb, LinkedIn and Twitter.
We are not using the default social share rendering provided by Sitecore. These are normal links with JS code to share on fb,twitter etc..
Please guide.
An ootb way is not available but it can be done rather easily with some custom code. I wrote a blog post about integrating the AddThis component with xDB a while ago.
It's a combination of some javascript (you'll need to adapt this to your social share solution, but it's actually nothing more than making a call when sharing) and a controller. The controller will trigger the actual goal (or event...) you want. The blog has code for Sitecore 8.1 - this might differ for other versions (don't know your version). In a 8 environment, you need this:
We try to find the goal (Sitecore item) based on the post parameter.
If found, we use that data to register a PageEvent to the PreviousPage
of the current Tracker. We end by 'saving' the changes and cancelling
the current request
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Problem Statement
I'm working on building out a single-page Django web app and am trying to implement the following functionality:
- All viewers of the page are associated with a state. There are buttons on the page which enable viewers to change their state.
- The application stores a list of all current viewers of the page, and their associated states. Whenever a user changes their state, this stored list of viewers updates with this new information.
- The application should display how many people are online (viewing the page) at a given time.
Blockers
I'm unsure of how to collect a list of all current viewers of a page in Django, nor how to collect how many users are currently viewing the page.
Ideally, my application would not require a login to use: therefore, I'd rather either associate viewer state with a user object that doesn't require sign-in, or not associate viewer state with a user object (I'm still new to user objects though, so forgive me if this point doesn't make complete sense).
What I'm Looking For
A discussion of higher-level strategies which I can use to implement this functionality, or other places to look to gain insight in tackling my problem. I'm pretty new to Django, so I'd appreciate it if answers also direct me to locations in my Django project which are of relevance (e.g. "Consider doing X in views.py, then..."). Alternatively, if there are GitHub projects you know of with similar functionality, if you could direct me to them to investigate further, that would also be appreciated.
I'd be happy to offer further clarification as required. Thanks in advance!
I have been using Sitecore for a couple of years, and now looking to begin utilizing the Experience functionality found in Sitecore 8.
I have a view that will capture some user-provided data. How do I go about creating a "person" (don't know the correct Sitecore terminology) in the Analytics database from custom code.
You'll need to create a Contact. Contacts are a kind of profile store for xDb and allows you to store data about your visitors. A contact has a built in list of facets (email, phone number, name etc) that make up the contact record, but it's also possible to create your own facets.
If you are building a form to capture data you can use the new Tracker api to identify and update facets on a contact.
Here's some code to do this:
https://github.com/ianjohngraham/CoreBlimey.Utils/blob/master/CoreBlimey.Utils/xDB%20Contact%20Creator/CreateContact.aspx.cs
There's a walk through of how the code fits together here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6TpMgUGAk
(Apologies for the sound quality)
Also if you are using the WFFM module in Sitecore 8 there are some new save actions that will create contacts and store xDB data.
You may want to spend time on the docs. Please refer here for articles and guides related to Personalization and Personas.
Most of the configuration can be specified in Experience Analytics within Sitecore and you can leverage Rules Engine to perform actions.
I have a customize request from my client in sitecore mobile module.
I want to be on full view site from my mobile on Career page, i am able to do it but any of the link inside career page with having mobile layout in presentation detail is taking that page again to mobile device.
Can we make any customization that maintain the device in cookies so that it keep user on full view site after coming to career page.
Is there any setting we can do in pipeline or session. I just want to be throughout in full view site after coming on career page and no going back to mobile layout. Kindly suggest.
Yes, you can do exactly that. You'd need to update the rule to detect the various devices (which I'm guessing you already have). You can then create a custom condition to check if cookies have been set for the full site(does not need to be a cookie of course, but that'd be the easiest way).
You can find the existing Conditions and Actions here in the path /sitecore/system/Settings/Rules.
To create custom conditions and actions, please read the following article on SitecoreInsight.com
After creating your custom condition, go into your device item again and update the Rule there to only switch to that device when that cookie has not been set.
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Come to think about it, it might be possible to have your 'go to full site' link appended with a querystring sc_device={GUID of device}. I'm not sure what would take precedence here, the 51degrees rules or Sitecore's cookies... Worth a try though :-)
I'm building a small social WP plugin (more for learning purposes than anything else) and I'm trying to get my head around the various social networking sharing api's etc.
With regards to Facebook sharing, there seems to be the requirement for an application ID. Thats easy enough if this a one time thing, on a single site, but in the case of writing a plugin, I obviously would want it to be easy for users to install and setup, and not neccessarily have every user have to put one in from an options panel.
It seems to work when removing it from the FB.init, though I'm developing locally, and get an error when trying to use the like button.
Is an APP ID 100% required? and if so can I as a plugin author use one (think this gets paired with a website URL so not sure if its even possible) or the plugin that would
Anyone experienced with this got any tips?
For using the feed dialog, you do need an App (with ID). But you can - of course - just use your own App and just put it in the plugin. The App ID is nothing secret, and with that way you can also monitor the usage with the Facebook Insights.
There is one option without the feed dialog: sharer.php
It is exlained here: How to use Facebook Sharer in PHP
Just keep in mind that it is deprecated though (see other thread).
i wanna create alumni association website using drupal.so user(student,alumni,staff) can sign up/login using facebook/linked in.their details should be fetch from their social network profile.so which module is suitable for this criteria.Thanks in advance.suggest me.
Let me share my experience with Drupal and Facebook and related modules.
Out of all the modules in there, I liked drupal for facebook the most. It is very simple to configure, works nice. The drawback is it is a bit heavy and it still does not support some modern facebook stuff (like opengraph, custom actions etc). But no doubt it is the best module regarding to Facebook, I have ever used.
Now comes the problem of using Drupal modules with Facebook. All of them I found uses PHP-sdk and is slow and not modern stuff friendly (reloads the page once the user is logged in etc.).
Now you have two choices,
1. if you are into programming or can hire one for this small task, create a small module (one javascript file and one php file, that's it) and be done with it. I have done that quite nicely, though it was my first drupal module. If you want I (and a lot of people) can help you with the coding part.
2. If you don't want that, go with drupal for facebook.