YammerExtension: How to test posts to the Yammer feed?

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Thomas Schaer

postedon February 25, 2013at 4:52 PM

Is there a way to test how the generated output on Yammer would look like when actually posting to the Yammer feed using the Yammer extension?

I created a stringbuilder object which puts together some information of the Dev portal, including direct links to said info. First, I'm not sure whether the links will work when I use a href HTML tags... will Yammer correctly interpret them?

And then I just don't want to spam the Yammer feed with my test posts.

Any idea on how to test this?

Stephan

repliedon February 25, 2013at 5:25 PM

I don't think that the YammerExtension provide a function to post messages. Not yet. I had to use the built-in function "HTTPPOST" together with the function "OAuthSignURL" provided by the OAuthExtension.

Here is some example code posting the message "Hello World" to our Yammer dashboard:

1String $token := 'zo4eDB6A2n[***************** HIDDEN ************]Ueh9SEBl48';
2String $url := 'https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/messages/';
3$url := OAuthSignURL('YammerAppway', $token, $url, 'PLAINTEXT');
4Named String $data := NewNamed(String);
5$data['body'] := 'Hello World';
6HTTPPOST($url, $data);

The biggest problem is to get a valid OAuth authentication token. But I can help with that if required.

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