Activities

unable to save/preview activity templates

Caca — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:25:29 GMT

I keep getting the following error when trying to save or preview my activity template:

Could not update template: href value does not match http://*.myspace.com/* ; href value does not match http://*.myspace.com/*

My template contains 2 different URLs of the form <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/Modules/Applications/Pages/Canvas.aspx?appId=...> so I don't understand what the problem is. I even get that error when I save my existing templates without even modifying them, so it appears as though something has changed on myspace's end.

Thanks in advance for looking into this.

is it possible to send notification to mySpace friends using FacebookID application in asp.net(c#) ??

Biraj — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:49:49 GMT

I have developed application in asp.net(c#) using open oAuth(and also in oAuth) with MySPaceId. I want to send notification to mySpace friends. or SendNotification only works with onsite ??

Notification events to friends from my app

Adrian — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:55:06 GMT

hello,

How can I send notification events to friends from my app... i can not find any workable solution ....

tnx!

Retrieving Activities

Test User — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:20:15 GMT

Application activity events from your friends will be shown on your Home Page and on your Friend Update page. Your Home Page will show a maximun of 50% of application events, and you will compete for this real estate with your fellow application developers. There is not much control you have in this area.

You can also retrieve your events from your own application and show this on the application canvas page or on the profile page. Here is a little code sample that uses some jQuery to render the results:

<form>
<fieldset>
    <label for="whom">Get application events for </label>
    <input type="radio" name="whom" value="viewer" checked="true"/>viewer<input type="radio" name="whom" value="owner" />or owner
   <label for="justMyEvents">; show my events only</label>
    <input type="checkbox" name="justMyEvents" value="true" />
</fieldset>
</form>

function getActivities(){
   $("#activiesFeed").html("");
   var showViewer = $("input[@name=whom]:checked").val() == 'viewer';
   var justMyEvents = $("input[@name=justMyEvents]:checked").val() == 'true';
   var idspec = opensocial.newIdSpec();

   if (showViewer) {
     idspec.setField(opensocial.IdSpec.Field.USER_ID, opensocial.IdSpec.PersonId.VIEWER);
   } else {
     idspec.setField(opensocial.IdSpec.Field.USER_ID, opensocial.IdSpec.PersonId.OWNER);
   }

   if (justMyEvents) {
       idspec.setField(opensocial.IdSpec.Field.NETWORK_DISTANCE, 0);
   } else {
       idspec.setField(opensocial.IdSpec.Field.NETWORK_DISTANCE, 1);
   } var dataRequest = opensocial.newDataRequest();
dataRequest.add(dataRequest.newFetchActivitiesRequest(idspec, "activity"));
dataRequest.send(processActivities);
}

function processActivities(response){
try {
   var activitiesData = MyOpenSpace.RequestType.FETCH_ACTIVITIES;
   if (response.hadError() || response.get(activitiesData).hadError()) {
     if (response.get(activitiesData).getErrorCode() == opensocial.ResponseItem.Error.UNAUTHORIZED) {
           $("#status").html("Unauthorized; requesting user for permission.");
           requestUserToReceiveActivities();
           return;
     }

     if (response.get(activitiesData).hadError()) {
         $("#status").html("Error getting activities");
         $("#status").append(response.get(activitiesData).getErrorCode());
         $("#status").append(response.get(activitiesData).getErrorMessage());
     }
     $("#status").append(response.getErrorMessage());
} else {

var receivedData = response.get(activitiesData).getData();
$("#activiesFeed").append("<ol>");
for (var item in receivedData.asArray()) {
   var timeTxt = receivedData.asArray()[item].getField("postedTime");
   // note: iconUrl is missing, but that would just be your regular icon for the app.
   var iconUrl = receivedData.asArray()[item].getField("streamFavIconUrl");
   var userId = receivedData.asArray()[item].getField("userId");
   var titleId = receivedData.asArray()[item].getField("titleId");
   var appId = receivedData.asArray()[item].getField("appId");
   var titleTxt = receivedData.asArray()[item].getField("title");
   var bodyTxt = receivedData.asArray()[item].getField("body");
   var oneUpdate = "";
    if (bodyTxt != null && bodyTxt.length > 0){
       oneUpdate = "<li> on " + timeTxt.substring(0,16) + ": <div>" + $("#feedTxtToHtml").html(titleTxt).text() + "<br/>" + $("#feedTxtToHtml").html(bodyTxt).text() + "</div></li>";
    } else {
       oneUpdate = "<li> on " + timeTxt.substring(0,16) + ": <div>" + $("#feedTxtToHtml").html(titleTxt).text() + "</div></li>";
    }

$("#activiesFeed").append(oneUpdate);
}

$("#activiesFeed").append("</ol>");

//make sure all hyperlinks get out of the iframe
$("#activiesFeed a").attr("target", "_blank");
//hide the helper dom object.
$("#feedTxtToHtml").hide();
}

}

catch (any){
$("#status").html("<span style='color:red'>ERROR with rendering the feed.</span>");
}

}

function requestUserToSentActivities(){
opensocial.requestPermission([MyOpenSpace.Permission.VIEWER_SEND_UPDATES_TO_FRIENDS], "Let your friends know what you are doing.", checkPermissionResponseSent);
}

function requestUserToReceiveActivities(){
opensocial.requestPermission([MyOpenSpace.Permission.VIEWER_SHOW_UPDATES_FROM_FRIENDS], "See what your friends are doing with this app!", checkPermissionResponseReceive);
}

function checkPermissionResponseSent(){
//This does get called, but don't use alert statements. They are filtered by the container

}

function checkPermissionResponseReceive(){
//This does get called, but don't use alert statements. They are filtered by the container
}

</script>

Error: That PostTo target is not supported.

Pierdolę Taką Dolę — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:58:55 GMT

Hey, I try to create an activity from an embed iframe using the non-openSocial workaround described here:

http://profile.myspace.com/Modules/Applications/Pages/Canvas.aspx?appId=124833

however, i keep getting the following error:

That PostTo target is not supported

Any ideas what causes the error?

New Error 'MessageType is not supported'

Mike Papper — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:40:38 GMT

My activity feed code was working and on Friday it stopped. Today (Monday Feb 2) I see this error:

MessageType is not supported

Is this related to the recenty posted issues by Marco?

If not, what does this error mean?

Mike

Heres the code:

var params[opensocial.Activity.Field.TEMPLATE_PARAMS] = {"body0":body0, "body1":body1, "body2":body2};

var mediaItemArray = [;
params[opensocial.Activity.Field.MEDIA_ITEMS] = mediaItemArray;

var activity = opensocial.newActivity(params);

opensocial.requestCreateActivity(activity, opensocial.CreateActivityPriority.HIGH,
function(data) {

...

badRequest error code: should be strings?

Clint — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:50:13 GMT

Hi there,

Having a problem solving this error code posting an activity with the following template generated code I pasted into my sample app:

var params = {};
params[opensocial.Activity.Field.TITLE_ID] = "maintemplate";
params[opensocial.Activity.Field.TEMPLATE_PARAMS] = {"action":"did something"};

var mediaItemArray = [;
params[opensocial.Activity.Field.MEDIA_ITEMS] = mediaItemArray;

var activity = opensocial.newActivity(params);
opensocial.requestCreateActivity(activity, opensocial.CreateActivityPriority.HIGH, opt_callBack);

I get the following error in the callback:

badRequest Field opensocial.Activity.Field.TEMPLATE_PARAMS contains invalid types. Values shuold be strings.

Yes "should" is spelled incorrectly :)

Has anyone figured out how to get past this?

null in the template message of an activitie

Pablo — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:39:36 GMT

Hi guys.

I create a application

(surface view)

<input type="button" value="Clikiame" onclick="sentActivity()"/>
<div id="status"> </div>

<script type="text/javascript">
function sentActivity()
{
var params = {};
params[opensocial.Activity.Field.TITLE_ID] = "tt1_msj";
params[opensocial.Activity.Field.TEMPLATE_PARAMS] = {};

var mediaItemArray = [;
params[opensocial.Activity.Field.MEDIA_ITEMS] = mediaItemArray;

var activity = opensocial.newActivity(params);
opensocial.requestCreateActivity(activity, opensocial.CreateActivityPriority.HIGH, opt_callBack);

}

function opt_callBack(response){
  if (response.hadError()){ 
  document.getElementById('status').innerHTML = "<span style='color:red'>" + response.getErrorMessage() + "</span>";
  }
}
</script>

This application use a template
name:tt1_msj

title:${subject}I Can See activities !!!

body:Click <a href="${canvasUrl}"> Para acceder a la aplicacion </a>

The problem is .. when i click the button to create the activity ... then show me this

Why the template showme NULL in the message ?? Other thing .. both application and template are in development status.

Regards

Pablo Reynoso

REST API for Activities returning Unauthorized

Scott — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:13:52 GMT

I am trying to get Activities through the REST api:

Example:

http://api.myspace.com/v1/users/63709550/activities.atom?oauth_consumer_key=MyKey&oauth_nonce=10bfbde0-7176-4836-85d0-3fe805c4ab06&oauth_signature=Signature&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1238461215&oauth_token=TOKEN&oauth_version=1.0

All other calls to the REST api seem to work fine, but the Activities returns 401 Unauthorized.

Is this not supported currently through the REST apis?

Thanks,
Scott

Preview Acitivity popup becomes optional for user

Test User — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:47:34 GMT

Comming up on our next code roll:

The activities preview popup will become optional if the user chooses to "Publish" the event and the "Rember my selection" is checked.

Send message from external website

ImpingeApp — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:21:40 GMT

Hi,

I have an external website lets say ie: http://www.myexample.com I want external login to the my space and then want to send messages to my friends on myspace. Please let me know can I send messages to friends in mysapce from myspace. Please let me know the procedure and rest api to send the message

thx Jas

Can't publish my development template

Serge — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:10:53 GMT

Good day,

I'm trying to create an Activity request using external IFrame IFPC (http://profile.myspace.com/Modules/Applications/Pages/Canvas.aspx?appId=124833)

I've debugged the JavaScript from the demo and from my application to the corresponding _IFPC.call. I believe IFPC library (IFPC_externalIframe005.js) works correclty on my computer (adjustHeight works fine). I believe all parameters for the _IFPC.call are set correctly (I compared them between my and the demo apps) and I have all necessary permissions.

When I'm publishing the activity from the Demo, I see popup with the Activity text ("This is the test template 1"). When I'm publishing my Activity, I see the popup without the activity text. The template is created and its name is set to params ( params[MyOpenSpace.Activity.Field.TITLE_ID] = "changedMotto";), So, looks like MySpace can't see my activity text.

I'm trying to understand what can be wrong. My template is not published (the application is in development stage for now). Can this be the cause of my problem? Are there any other things to check?

Thank you for any help in advance,

Serge.

recently introduced bugs with activities

Anatoly — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:11:45 GMT

1) Activity dialog has unneccessary scrollbars. it did not have unneccessary scrollbars a month ago.

2) Activity dialog doesn't have focus so most of the time invisible for the user. users just see the shading background and that's it.

It used to have focus. Check it out. If it opens in the center of the visible browser area - will be also fine.

activity doesn't work on home surface

Anatoly — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:52:17 GMT

Hello

Activity is firing ok when the user takes certain action on the canvas, but it is not firing from home surface.

I don't get any error, but the activity is not fired.

MDP activities are visible to all the friends!

Test User — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:08:51 GMT

Good news. Finally the activities raised from an application is visible to all the friends.

(Not just for the friends who have the app installed)

We hope this will help you a lot with the viral spreading of your successful app.

Let me know if you see any issues.

Marco

Games activity feeds

MySpace Games — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:40:55 GMT

Hi,

We developed and activity feed for games and we work with the following templates:NewHighScore, NewGameChampion,
MultiplayerVictoryGuest, MultiplayerVictoryFriend

When we tested it against the staging environment it work OK, however there are some issues:

We have only one variable for the game name, which variable or which information should we send in order for it to link to the desired target
Right now we see the feeds only in the user that creates them and not at the friends, why is that (also we don’t see games in the subscriptions preference page)?

Thanks in advance

Activities and REST API

ldumont — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:36:11 GMT

Are activities available through the OpenSocial REST API?

I'm trying to perform some OAuth authentified calls from an external apps but I'm getting this error when trying to access @me activities:

Application does not have the required user application permissions to make this call. The User has restricted this Application's access to this resource.

Activities are temporary dissabled on the Home page and Friend Update page

Test User — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:12:16 GMT

12/31/2008:

We temporary dissabled showing your raised activities on the Home page and Friend Update page. We hope to enable this soon.

You will be able to retrieve your application activities through the API calls.

Marco

1/13/2009:

Update: Feature is enabled again.

Editing Activity Templates

Brock — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:19:44 GMT

Do templates get locked down somehow when they are published from the Development stage and made Live? Is the idea that we shouldn't edit the templates after they've been published? It seems as though I can make text changes and rearrange variables, but I'm unable to add new variables. I don't even seem to be able to add System Variables once the template is published. I tried adding ${subject.DisplayName} to one of my published templates and it just prints out as-is in the activity feed.

And then there's the Deleted Templates pane in the main template edit window, what it the purpose of that? None of this is really covered in the documentation and I'm just wondering what the dos and don'ts are.

Thanks,
~Brock

Activity Templates

Brock — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:40:19 GMT

I'm having problems with activity templates for the following app:

Name: The Simpsons
ID: 122379

I deleted 4 templates a couple of weeks ago, but they're still in the Deleted Templates pane with the status "Pending Delete". I can't create replacement templates until these are removed it seems. I get the following when I try to create new templates with the same name:

Could not create template: Template name "thumbsup" already exists. Application Id 122379

I deleted those templates because it didn't appear that I could edit them, and add new variables, once they were published.

~Brock

Creating a template

Brock — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:35:14 GMT

Having some trouble creating an activity template. I keep running into string length limitations. Here's what's happening with my templates:

Title:
${subject} created a question in the show ${showname} on the ${appname} app.
Body:
${subject.DisplayName} ask: <b>${questiontext}</b>

showname = <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/Modules/Applications/Pages/Canvas.aspx?appId=134786&appParams=%7B%22deep%5Flink%22%3A%22KBXJ4576VN%2DFXZS3009XB%2D1675894%2D707%22%7D">Undercover</a>

appname = <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/Modules/Applications/Pages/Canvas.aspx?appId=134786&appParams=%7B%22tab%5Fcode%22%3A%22KBXJ4576VN%22%7D">Lie To Me</a>

questiontext = <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/Modules/Applications/Pages/Canvas.aspx?appId=134786&appParams=%7B%22deep%5Flink%22%3A%22KBXJ4576VN%2DFXZS3009XB%2D1675894%2D707%22%7D">Do you think this guy is lying?</a>

Error: Template value for key questiontext exceeds the max length of 200.

So I try breaking the question into two parts: the link and the text.

Body:
${subject.DisplayName} ask: <b><a href="${questionlink}">${questiontext}</a></b>

questionlink = http://profile.myspace.com/Modules/Applications/Pages/Canvas.aspx?appId=134786&appParams=%7B%22deep%5Flink%22%3A%22KBXJ4576VN%2DFXZS3009XB%2D1675894%2D707%22%7D

questiontext = Do you think this guy is lying?

Error: Template value for key questionlink exceeds the max visible length of 60

The editor doesn't seem to realize variable isn't actually visible. Then I try to break it down further...

Body:
${subject.DisplayName} ask: <b><a href="${canvasUrl}&appParams=${questionparams}">${questiontext}</a></b>

questionparams = %7B%22deep%5Flink%22%3A%22KBXJ4576VN%2DFXZS3009XB%2D1675894%2D707%22%7D

questiontext = Do you think this guy is lying?

Error: Template value for key questionparams exceeds the max visible length of 60.

But my parameter string is still too big.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
~Brock

Problem to retrieve activities

mike — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:46:15 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to use activities to post some data,
when for example a new user update his image collection, I'd like also to post some kind of my tag like <imgAdr> inside Activities for filter inside my app and adding this image to other collection.

Questions:

1) Here's code but array of ownerActivities and friends Activities return me 0 why?

2) but Owner Activities is the same as I view clicking [Friends]->[Activities] (top menu)

3) if yes which is the friends Activities

4) but Marco is italian?

CODE---------

function prnLn(textStr, destIdStr){

document.getElementById(destIdStr).innerHTML += textStr +"<br />";

}

/**

* Retrieve all activity of owner

function loadActivity(){

prnLn("Loading ...","out1");

var req = opensocial.newDataRequest();

// owner activities

var spec = new opensocial.IdSpec();

spec.setField(opensocial.IdSpec.Field.USER_ID, opensocial.IdSpec.PersonId.OWNER);

req.add(req.newFetchActivitiesRequest(spec),'ownerActivities');

// friends activities

var spec = new opensocial.IdSpec();

spec.setField(opensocial.IdSpec.Field.USER_ID, opensocial.IdSpec.PersonId.OWNER);

spec.setField(opensocial.IdSpec.Field.GROUP_ID, 'FRIENDS');

spec.setField(opensocial.IdSpec.Field.NETWORK_DISTANCE, 1);

req.add(req.newFetchActivitiesRequest(spec), 'friendsActivities');

req.send(onLoadActivities);

}

function printActivity(activity){

prnLn("print","out1");

document.getElementById("out1").innerHTML += activity.getField(opensocial.Activity.Field.TITLE) + " ";

}

function onLoadActivities(data)

{

prnLn("Retrieved","out1");

var ownerActivities = data.get('ownerActivities').getData().asArray();

var friendsActivities = data.get('friendsActivities').getData().asArray();

if(ownerActivities==null)

prnLn("ownerActivities NULL!","out1");

else

prnLn("ownerActivities OK","out1");

if(friendsActivities==null)

prnLn("friendsActivities NULL!","out1");

else

prnLn("friendsActivities OK","out1");

if (data.hadError()) {

alert("Error: "+ownerActivities.getErrorMessage());

return;

}

prnLn(ownerActivities.length,"out1");

prnLn(friendsActivities.lengh,"out2");

friendsActivities.each(printActivity);

ownerActivities.each(printActivity);

prnLn("ok Activity get");

//gadgets.window.adjustHeight();

}

function init(){

prnLn("GO!","out1");

loadActivity();

}

init();

</script>

Thanks

How to post activities from an external java application

Mauricio — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:23:12 GMT

Hi everyone,

I know it's annoying to get the same questions over and over, but I've been reading for hours and I'm getting mixed information.

I need to post activities from a java desktop application to inform the owner's friends about the owner's progress in a job. I don't need to show anything in the owner's home, the owner doesn't need to interact with the application from within MySpace and the owner's friends don't need to see anything but the posted activity. I can launch a web browser to let the user enter his/her credentials if that's a requirement.

Is this at all possible? Does it violate MySpace rules? What API should I use to achieve this? Are there any similar examples I can read?

I've tried using opensocial-java-client and myspaceid-java-sdk, both downloaded from Google Code. I've also registered a new application in developer.myspace.com but it won't let me publish it because it doesn't have any "Panels". I don't know what "Panels" are but I'm assuming it's talking about the Home, Profile and Canvas Views. Am I correct? Can I work around this without breaking the rules?

Thank you,

Mauricio

Posting activity to mulitple friends

Aziz — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:55:41 GMT

I am able post activity to single friend using templates. However, I want to post an activity to multiple friends. Is this supported?, if yes, how can I do this?

Thanks

Aggregate appParams problem

David Wilson — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:05:56 GMT

Hi,

We are developing an app with user art creation in it. We would like to be able to link newly crated art from the activities updates to the app.

We have successfully achieved this using:

a href="${canvasUrl}&appParams=${params}" Click here to see it!

But if the user creates more then one artwork, the Aggregate feature will put both params into the url on the link with an 'and' in between; this breaks the url completely.

Is there a way to do:

User has crated 4 artworks today. See one here.

or turn off the Aggregate altogether?

thanks David.