topic Re: How does the 'site activities' dashlet work? in Alfresco Archive

How does the 'site activities' dashlet work?

daforce93 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:02:27 GMT

Hi everyone,I know that the "site activities" dashlet in Share works by first doing a GET request to share/service/components/dashlets/activities/list, which then sends a GET request to the webscript at api/activities/feed/user. I think (though I'm not 100% sure on this) that the executeImpl method

Re: How does the 'site activities' dashlet work?

jpotts — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:03:50 GMT

When someone starts asking about the database schema my spidey sense starts tingling.

Are you thinking of writing into that table directly?

Re: How does the 'site activities' dashlet work?

janv — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:52:23 GMT

Hi Jordan,

Thanks for the detailed question. If you're interested in the original design then please take a look at 3.0 Activities Design

Essentially, activities are posted to the "alf_activity_post",table and then background jobs handle the "generation" of the user-specific activity feeds (that are held in the "alf_activity_feed") table. This has handled the initial requirements relatively well over time, no pun intended 😉

However, in the future, we would like to improve the capabilities of the activity streams and take the opportunity to revisit and improve the overall architecture and design.

Regards,

Jan