How to create a new Activity Stream entry 'manually' or from a 3rd party app?

Hi there,

Is there some documentation for the comprofiler_plugin_activity table (particularly the params field)? We have experimented based on CB created entries - would it really be as simple as adding entries to that table, or would it break something else?

We need to be able to post onto the activity stream from outside CB. This is important to us for 1) future flexibility in general and 2) also to give 3rd party apps that we need what they require to integrate into the CB activity stream.

Many thanks!

R

I should also have asked if posting to a Groupjive wall from outside CB via the groupjive_plugin_wall is also a crazy idea or not...(?)

Use CB Auto Actions to add new entries and execute the action from outside sources by running its URL either directly, a redirect, or with an HTTP request. If possible always just act on a trigger though.

Having to keep up with any and all future API changes is likely to make you lose your hair. CB Activity is still rapidly evolving and that includes its API so large wide-sweeping changes to how its API is used are planned.

If you still need to directly add new activity entries then I recommend just directly adding them to the database. See an existing activity entry for examples of how they're stored. Params usage depends on the source and can be used for forwarding commenting and tagging parameters from a parent source to caching an shared images data.

All of the above basically applies to GJ Wall as well, which will be replaced and deprecated entirely in a future release in favor of a plugin that integrates with CB Activity to output a nicer activity stream per group.