Jan 13 2017 12:36 PM
I need a commenting solution for SharePoint publishing pages. What are other's using? I've see some articles about Yammer, but not quite sure how that would work since the Yammer feed would need to be tied to that publishing page. I wouldn't want to create a new Yammer group each time I create a page nor would I expect our page creators to drop a new web part on each publishing page they create. It needs to be built into the page layout I think. Has anyone come up with a good solution for this? Seems like basic publishing functionality that should really be there already.
Jan 13 2017 02:03 PM - edited Jun 25 2017 12:28 PM
Hi Luke,
You can use Yammer to comment on publishing pages. A very common scenario is to create a news page layout and put a Yammer embed code at the bottom of the news article. You can configure the Yammer embed code at the Yammer website. It depends where you want to post it. You can use the "all network" view, but you can also post comments in a different group.
In the modern pages you can add a Yammer webpart, but it's not possible yet to create page layouts for those pages. When that functionality is added there will probably be some blog posts about these type of scenarios.
Cheers,
Daniel
Aug 10 2017 11:38 AM
If you use Yammer, then the embed will work just fine if you use the OpenGraph as the link to the page.
One thing that I find extremely useful is the Yammer Embed Tool which allows you to test your embed code before you actually implement it.
Here is the example: You add a script block to the Page Layout and then use Javascript to change the embed block url property to match the current URL of the page. Here is what an example embed might look like using the Tool (trick to using the tool, change the type of the feed to Open Graph and then click Apply)
yam.connect.embedFeed({ "feedType": "open-graph", "config": { "use_sso": false, "header": false, "footer": false, "showOpenGraphPreview": false, "defaultToCanonical": false, "hideNetworkName": false, "promptText": "Tell me where you want to go today..." }, "objectProperties": { "url": "http://www.microsoft.com", "type": "page", "fetch": true, "private": false, "ignore_canonical_url": false }, "container": "#embedded-feed" });
Aug 10 2017 12:01 PM
Aug 10 2017 12:04 PM
Aug 11 2017 08:55 AM
Thanks for the responses. We've tried Yammer commenting, but it seems a bit clunky and cannot be formatted very well on the page in my opinion. Our corporate communications team has rejected this for now. If it could be formatted better it would be a viable solution. Could any of you provide a screen shot of a page with Yammer comments? Maybe we're doing something wrong.
Communication site would require a major rewrite for our intranet right now. Not something I want to do.
Thanks,
Luke
Aug 11 2017 09:08 AM
Do you mean that they look like Yammer and not your website?
You CAN change that if you pull the respose using the REST API instead and format the JSON that you get back into what you want.
Aug 14 2017 05:46 AM