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New version of our “Assembly free” Team status Application
by  Daniel McPherson  on 29/04/2009 11:24

Just finished making some improvements to our "Team Status” application based on some feedback we received:

  1. Performance has now been dramatically improved. Previously I would issue 2 web service calls, for each messages (once for the username, once for the picture). I know, disaster. Tonight I changed it so that all usernames and pictures are cached upfront. Thanks to those who pointed out the performance was slow, please do try again and let me know what you think.
  2. I solved the issue that resulted in some manual steps during installation. So now, adding members to the site is as easy as, well, adding members to the site.
  3. Also solved a couple of smaller issues:
    1. Now works fine with HTTPS
    2. Now works fine on Site Collections at the root of a Web Application

I have almost got it working on BPOS (Microsoft Online Services), will have an update in the next week or so. In the mean time try it out here:

Demo Site: http://demo.zevenseas.com/sites/AssemblyFreeDemos/TeamStatus/default.aspx
Domain for all accounts:
Usernames: ZSHOSTED\teamstatus, ZSHOSTED\teamstatus2, ZSHOSTED\teamstatus3
Passwords: (passwords are the same as username, eg. teamstatus, teamstatus2, teamstatus3

 

Or install it yourself:

  1. Download it
  2. Create a new site collection, log on as Site Collection Administrator, and upload this .STP file to the “Site Templates” gallery.
  3. Under “Site Actions”, select “Create”, then chose “Sites and Workspaces”.
  4. Give your site a Title, URL and a Description and then click on the “Custom” tab, select “TeamStatus” and click “Create”. Note: This version currently does not support unique permissions, so you must use parent permissions.
  5. After a few moment you will be taken to the new site, and be able to create a send messages.
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Oskar Austegard

This looked neat, so I decided to try it on my SP intranet MySite.  Looks like there are a few bugs:
1. Profile Image does not show up - the Img src is [rooturl]/personal/oskar_austegard/tweet/null (where [rooturl] is the path to our intranet, and tweet is the name of my TeamStatus site)
2. The mentions reg ex fails on usernames with a period, like oskar.austegard
3. The GMT offset that causes messages to show up as posted 6 hrs into the future, but I guess you know about that one already.
System Account on 30/04/2009 10:35

Oskar Austegard

Ok - turns out that 1. above is caused by the userNames hashtable not getting filled.  Also, our intranet goes beyond your 500 user limit - wonder if it would be possible to get the SITE users only, as opposed to all users?

I fixed the regex in my case by changing it to /(?:@([\w\.]+))+/g - but this needs to be made more robust to handle other valid domain name characters...

I had looking into SPAPI_Javascript on my list of TODO items - thanks for the incentive to actually do it!
System Account on 30/04/2009 11:18

Tulasi

Can you please tell me settings which you have done access on https

Thanking You
System Account on 30/12/2009 20:51

Angelo

The "Welcome null" user issue still exists on my site.
do you have a fix for this?
System Account on 11/02/2010 23:51
 

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