Description

This project contains a webapplication which can be easily deployed on portals, based on Gentics Portal.Node 4, especially the Gentics Enterprise 2.0 Portal (short GEP).

It consists of a following files used to get the Twitter portlet working:

war-file which contains all needed files, styles, javascripts, etc.
XML-Objecttype (for import in portaladministration-portlet) for the contentrepository

How it works

TODO: Describe the way how the twitter portlet works

How to intall

Add it to the portal

create the database-object

If you are not using GEP, you have to manually add a new sms-objecttype to your contentrepository. The sms-objecttype can be downloaded >here<. Now you simply have to navigate to the portletadministration of your portal and import the objecttype.

portletapplications.xml

Now you have your war-package. But what to do now. Firstly you have to add the webapplication to your portletapplications.xml located in .../tomcat/conf/gentics by adding following line:

<portlet-app context="Twitter"/>

pnode

After you have added the Twitter-Portlet to the portletapplications.xml, you have to add following pnode in your portletentities.xml or portaltemplate.

<!-- Twitter Module -->
<pnode type="Twitter/Tweet" id="Tweet">
	<actions>
		<action name="windowstate.maximized">
			<visible>true</visible>
		</action>
		<action name="portletmode.View">
			<visible>false</visible>
		</action>
		<action name="portletmode.Edit">
			<visible>false</visible>
		</action>
		<action name="sidebar">
			<visible>true</visible>
		</action>
	</actions>
	<style>defaultstyle</style>
	<titleaction>focus</titleaction>
	<parameters>
		<parameter name="supportssidebar">true</parameter>
		<parameter name="datasource">twitter_pcr</parameter>
		<parameter name="user_datasource">pcr</parameter>
		<parameter name="gentics.portletreload">true</parameter>
		<parameter name="gentics.portletreload.replaceall">true</parameter>
		<parameter name="gentics.portletreload.replacelink">true</parameter>
		<parameter name="gentics.portletreload.replaceform">true</parameter>
	</parameters>
	<reactions />
</pnode>

Add javascript to your portalpage

To implement the functionality of automatic loading new messages to the tweet-list, you have to add following javascript. It checks in all 5 seconds if there are new tweets and reloads the portlet.

<script type="text/javascript" src="/Twitter/script/init.js"></script>

Configuration

Datasources

In the web.xml of the Twitter-webapplication the used datasources and objecttypes of sms and user have to be configured.

Adjust following settings:

<init-param>
	<param-name>cr_tweet_url</param-name>
	<param-value><![CDATA[jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:42006/twitter_pcr?user=node&password=xxxxx]]></param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
	<param-name>cr_user_url</param-name>
	<param-value><![CDATA[jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:42006/demoportal_pcr?user=node&password=xxxxx]]></param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
	<param-name>smsobjecttype</param-name>
	<param-value>90022</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
	<param-name>userobjecttype</param-name>
	<param-value>50000</param-value>
</init-param>