In this article, I’ll explain on how to post to Office 365 SharePoint Social Feed using .NET Client Object Model (CSOM).

Step1  Create a Console application by name ‘PublishToSocialFeed’

Step2 Add references to the following assemblies

Microsoft.SharePoint.Client
Microsoft.SharePoint.ClientRuntime
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles

Step3 Add references to the following assemblies

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Social;

Step4

Create a Public Function by name ‘PublishPost’ and add the following snippet of code.

public static void PublishPost()
       {
           Uri oUri = new Uri(“https://yoursite.sharepoint.com”);

           Office365ClaimsHelper claimsHelper = new Office365ClaimsHelper(oUri, “youruserid@yoursite.onmicrosoft.com”, “yourpassword”);
          
           using (ClientContext oClientContext = new ClientContext(oUri))
           {
               oClientContext.ExecutingWebRequest += claimsHelper.clientContext_ExecutingWebRequest;

               SocialFeedManager oSocialFeedManager = new SocialFeedManager(oClientContext);
              
               //Create an instance of Social Data Item object
               SocialDataItem oSocialDataItem = new SocialDataItem();
               oSocialDataItem.ItemType = SocialDataItemType.Link;
               oSocialDataItem.Text = “Google”;
               oSocialDataItem.Uri = “http://google.com”;

               //Create an instance of Social Post Creation Data
               SocialPostCreationData oSocialPostCreationData = new SocialPostCreationData();
               oSocialPostCreationData.ContentText = “This is my first post”;

               oSocialFeedManager.CreatePost(null, oSocialPostCreationData);
               oClientContext.ExecuteQuery();

               Console.WriteLine(“Published a news feed”);
           }

       }
To know more about ‘Office 365 Helper’ class and active authentication for Office 365, please refer to Wictor Wilen’s article.

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In this article, I’d be articulating on how to retrieve list of installed workflows in SharePoint 2013 Office 365 site using Client Side Object Model (CSOM). Just to give a background the workflow framework in SP 2013 has undergone a major revamp, there are new WorkflowServicesManager and WorkflowDeploymentService objects, we’d also be leveraging the new APIs accordingly to retrieve

Create a console application and name it as ‘RetrieveInstalledWorkflows’.

Add references to the following dll’s.

Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.WorkflowServices.dll

Import the following namespaces

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.WorkflowServices;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Workflow;

Create a static method by name ‘RetrieveInstalledWorkflows’ and implement the following snippet of code.

public static void RetrieveInstalledWorkflows()
{
    Uri oUri = new Uri(“https://yoursite.sharepoint.com”);
   
  
    Office365ClaimsHelper claimsHelper = new Office365ClaimsHelper(oUri, “userid@yoursiter.onmicrosoft.com”, “your password”);
    using (ClientContext oClientContext = new ClientContext(oUri))
    {      

        oClientContext.ExecutingWebRequest += claimsHelper.clientContext_ExecutingWebRequest;
       
        //Get the instance of Workflow Services Manager
        WorkflowServicesManager oWorkflowServicesManager = new WorkflowServicesManager(oClientContext,oClientContext.Web);

        //Hook to WorkflowDeploymentService
        WorkflowDeploymentService oWorkflowDeploymentService = oWorkflowServicesManager.GetWorkflowDeploymentService();

        //Fetch all the installed workflows
        var oWorkflowDefinitionCollection = oWorkflowDeploymentService.EnumerateDefinitions(true);
        oClientContext.Load(oWorkflowDefinitionCollection);

 
        oClientContext.ExecuteQuery();

        foreach(var oWorkflowDefinition in oWorkflowDefinitionCollection)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(“Workflow”+oWorkflowDefinition.DisplayName);
        }

        Console.ReadLine();

    }

}

To know more about Office365ClaimsHelper class, please refer to Wictor Wilen’s article on active authentication

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In this article, I’ll explain how to publish a Post to the SharePoint Social Feed using SharePoint 2013 JavaScript Object Model (JSOM).Open Visual Studio 2013, Create a new SharePoint Hosted App and name it as PublishPost.

Go to default.aspx, add a reference to SP.UserProfiles.js in the PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead

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/_layouts/15/sp.userprofiles.js

Add the following Javascript function in the App.JS file (comment out the existing code already in the file)

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SP.SOD.executeOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(WritePost, ‘SP.UserProfiles.js’);

function WritePost() {
    var oclientContext;
    var ofeedManager;
    var oresultThread;

    // Initialize the current client context and the SocialFeedManager instance.
    oclientContext = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
    ofeedManager = new SP.Social.SocialFeedManager(oclientContext);

    // Add a link to be included in the post.
    var olinkDataItem = new SP.Social.SocialDataItem();
    olinkDataItem.set_itemType(SP.Social.SocialDataItemType.link);
    olinkDataItem.set_text(‘My blog url’);
    olinkDataItem.set_uri(‘http://sundarnarasiman.net’);
    var osocialDataItems = [ olinkDataItem ];

    // Set up the post content
    var opostCreationData = new SP.Social.SocialPostCreationData();
    opostCreationData.set_contentText(‘The text for the post, which contains a {0}.’);
    opostCreationData.set_contentItems(osocialDataItems);

    // Write the post
    oresultThread = ofeedManager.createPost(null, opostCreationData);
    oclientContext.executeQueryAsync(WriteSucceeded, WriteFailed);
}

function WriteSucceeded(sender, args) {
    $get(“ResultMessage”).innerText = ‘Successfully posted the message to Posts’;
}
function WriteFailed(sender, args) {
    $get(“ResultMessage”).innerText = ‘Failure in writing message’ + args.get_message();
}

Open the default.aspx and add the following snippet

<Div id=”ResultMessage” style=”color: blue”></Div>

Open the AppManifest.XML and provide FullControl permission to UserProfiles (Social) and Tenant. Otherwise, you’ll get a permission error.

<App xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/2012/app/manifest”
     Name=”PublishPost”
     ProductID=”{72faf665-bf93-4a8e-88a7-2d2ad0be0f9d}”
     Version=”1.0.0.0″
     SharePointMinVersion=”15.0.0.0″
>
  <Properties>
    <Title>PublishPost</Title>
    <StartPage>~appWebUrl/Pages/Default.aspx?{StandardTokens}</StartPage>
  </Properties>

  <AppPrincipal>
    <Internal />
  </AppPrincipal>
  <AppPermissionRequests>
    <AppPermissionRequest Scope=”http://sharepoint/social/tenant” Right=”FullControl” />
    <AppPermissionRequest Scope=”http://sharepoint/content/tenant” Right=”FullControl” />
  </AppPermissionRequests>
</App>

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Now, you’ll see that the post being published to MySite.

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