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Originally written in 2007 by Matt Young and Ren Provey of Duke University and presented in the 2007 JA-SIG conference.
Summary of features:
- lets you login to facebook via link to facebook login then kicks back into portal
- shows the following at top bar:
- Friend Req.: 3
- Event Invites: 0
- New Messages: 2
- Pokes: 0
- Disconnect from Facebook (link)
- Facebook.com (link)
- shows friend requests with their pictures and names (which link to profiles)
Notes from discussion on portlet-dev on 5/20/2009:
- "Hi Cris, My understanding of the Duke FB portlet is that it displays a friend list with pictures and shows the notification count, buy Gary might be able to expand on the functionality a bit more than I. It also uses a login mechanism that only works in uP versions < 3.0, because it relies on a hack to allow the portlet to read the full query string. This hack doesn't work in uP 3.0 or greater and this is why I wrote the new version which uses the newer "Facebook Connect" login mechanism. Functionally, the new one doesn't display pictures of friends, but does show notifications and adds the ability to update your FB status. Hope that clears it up some." - Erik
- "Hi Erik, I believe the Duke FB portlet should actually work in uPortal 3.0.x, as of revision 43702 (last May)." - Jen
- "Hmm. I did extensive testing and couldn't get it to work on 3.0.1. It still relies on a dirty cast of PortletRequest to HttpServletRequest to get access to the query string when it does work. This was the only way to do it before Facebook Connect was released however, so it couldn't be avoided." -Erik
Usage Documentation
- FacebookPortlet User Manual
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