This document provides an overview of the new and improved social features in SharePoint 2013, including: - Community sites that allow users to rate, comment, and follow content more easily. - Enhanced My Sites profiles that include a new look and integration with SkyDrive for personal file storage. - Improved ways for users to follow people, see what others are working on, and interact through comments and likes. - Options to control who can see profile information and activity updates. - Replacement of SharePoint Workspace with SkyDrive Pro for syncing documents to desktop apps.

1. Overview of Social Features in
SharePoint 2013
By Michael Doyle

2. About Me
• Michael Doyle
• Senior Architect at Waggener Edstrom
• doyle@techelixir.com
• @SharePointNinja
• www.sharepointninja.com
• Author of “Customizing My Site in SharePoint
2010”

3. What’s New
• Community Site functionality with
rankings, ratings, comments and replies
• My Sites are similar but have a new look and
feel
• Skydrive
• New ways to mention, follow, and tag

4. Profile

5. View More - Profile

6. Edit Details

7. Additional Details

8. Saving Profile Changes

9. Who can see this?
• SP2013
– Everyone
– Just Me
• SP2010
– Everyone
– Just Me
– Team
– Colleagues

10. Everyone or Just Me

11. Photos
• Behind the scenes is
the same as SP2010
• Different look on
profile page
• Still have ability to
use external URL
• Different empty icon

12. Activities

13. Following People

14. I’m Following

15. Manage Following

16. Promote a Site

17. Promoted Sites

18. Managing Activities Seen

19. Activities Shared

20. Presence Information and Actions

21. Security Trimming Options

22. SkyDrive vs. SkyDrive Pro
• SkyDrive
– Free to individuals
– For Personal Files
– Cloud Storage
– Available in Office 365 Home Premium
– SharePoint Online users get 7 gig for personal
storage

23. SkyDrive vs. SkyDrive Pro - 2
• SkyDrive Pro
– Part of SharePoint 2013
– Storage limits determined by SharePoint
Administrator
– Synchs directly to Office Applications
– Get benefits of coauthoring, versioning and
workflows

24. Goodbye SharePoint Workspace
• Not being shipped
with Office 2013
• Being replaced with
SkyDrive Pro
• Will still work with
SharePoint 2013
sites

25. Personal Content Site

26. Easier to Check Permissions

27. Stop Sharing

28. Personal Apps

29. My Site Host
• Similar to SP2010
• Switching to Publishing and changing the look
and feel will break the site.
• Created the same way as in SP2010

30. Setting up My Site Host

31. User Profile Service
• Still uses FIM Services
• Same requirements for AD
permissions
• Pretty much the same as 2010

32. Profile Replication
• Recommendation is that you keep the user
profiles in the region they are physically
located
• Consuming user profile service will result in
sluggish performance
• Use the Profile Replication Service (just like in
SP 2010) to replicate user profile data (About
Me, Pictures, etc.)

33. Community Sites

34. Top Contributors

35. Reputation Settings

36. Badges

37. Gift Badges

38. Community Settings

39. People Search

40. Embed Media

41. HTML Field Security

42. Client Side Scripting with People fields
• Scenario
– We want to use client side scripting and we want to
display the photo of the person in the people field.
• Solution
– Include sp.js
– Query the list to get the user id
– Query the user information list to get the url of the
photo

43. Include the Script Link
• Edit aspx page in Advanced Mode
• Put in script link
– <SharePoint:scriptlink ID="ScriptLink"
runat="server" Name="sp.js" Localizable="false"
LoadAfterUI="true"/>
Note: can also be made part of the master page.

44. Query the list
var context = new SP.ClientContext.get_current();
var web = context.get_web();
var list = web.get_lists().getByTitle(‘Birthdays');
var query = new SP.CamlQuery();
var camlString = '<View><Query><Where><Geq><FieldRef Name="SortDate" /><Value
Type="DateTime"><Today /></Value></Geq></Where><OrderBy><FieldRef Name="SortDate"
Ascending="True" Type="DateTime"/></OrderBy></Query></View>;
query.set_viewXml(camlString);
allItems = list.getItems(query);
context.load(allItems, 'Include(Title, Person, SortDate)');
context.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this, this.BirthdaySuccess),
Function.createDelegate(this, this.BirthdayFailed));

45. Query the Person Field
//This gets the person field
user = currentItem.get_item('Person');
//This gets the user’s name from Person Field
obj.innerText = user.get_lookupValue();
//Send the User ID
getUserProfile(user.get_lookupId());
Note: the lookup id of this field is tied to the User Information List for the site
collection it is running in.

46. Query the User Information List
var userInfoList = web.get_siteUserInfoList();
var camlQuery = new SP.CamlQuery();
//Set CAML query to limit it to the one user
camlQuery.set_viewXml('<View><Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name="ID"/>'
+'<Value Type="Number">' + userId +
'</Value></Eq></Where></Query><RowLimit>1</RowLimit></View>');
collListItem = userInfoList.getItems(camlQuery);
context.load(collListItem);
context.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this, this.onUserQuerySucceede
d),Function.createDelegate(this, this.onUserQueryFailed));

47. Display Picture
var item = collListItem.itemAt(0);
var obj = document.getElementById("cel-pic-1");
var test = item.get_item('Picture');
if(test == null) //person doesn’t have a picture
{
obj.innerHTML = "<img height=64px width=64px class='cel-img' src='_layouts/images/person.gif'
/>";
}
else //use the url of the picture field
{
var pictureUrl = item.get_item('Picture').get_url();
obj.innerHTML = "<img height=64px width=64px class='cel-img' src='" + pictureUrl + "' />";
}
}

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