Social Media Adapters

In this section:

This section provides detailed descriptions of new features for the Social Media adapters.


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Adapter for Facebook

The Adapter for Facebook® has been introduced in this release and is available as a named adapter on the Web Console in the Social Media folder.

The adapter provides reporting capabilities from Facebook objects and Graph API SQL tables. It obtains publicly-accessible posts and comments placed on the page/user/app walls. The adapter can access any other textual information in accordance with user-granted permissions. Page administrators and app owners have access to the Facebook insights information. The adapter can retrieve correlated information from multiple tables and an object in a single execution.


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Facebook Wizard

How to:

The Facebook Wizard provides a step-by-step process to:

The Facebook Wizard displays these steps on the ribbon and in the navigation pane, as shown in the following image.

The Facebook Wizard is available from the Facebook icon above the main menu.



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Procedure: How to Use the Facebook Wizard to Create a Connection
  1. Launch the Facebook Wizard by clicking the Facebook icon above the main menu, as shown in the following image.

    The Add Facebook to Configuration pane opens, as shown in the following image.

  2. Enter a name in the Connection Name field.
  3. Enter the URL of the Facebook Graph API request. The default value is:

    https://graph.facebook.com/

  4. Click Get Access Token to obtain the Access Token.

    You must be have a Facebook account and must be logged in.

    The Access Token will be populated automatically.

  5. Select check box preferences from the Allowed Permissions section to access specific Facebook items.
  6. Select a profile from the drop-down menu. The default value is edaprof.
  7. Click Configure.

    A confirmation message is displayed, as shown in the following image.

  8. Click Test to test the configuration.

    Data from your Facebook profile is displayed.

  9. Click Next to move to the Posts Analysis step.


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Procedure: How to Use the Facebook Wizard to Configure Adapters to Analyze Posts
  1. Click Next from the Configure Connections pane, or select Posts Analysis from the ribbon or navigation pane.

    The Configure Words and Sentiment Analysis pane opens, as shown in the following image.

  2. Click Configure Selected Adapter to configure the Words Analysis adapter.

    A confirmation message is displayed, as shown in the following image.

    Alternately, if you have already configured the adapter, select Skip to Create Synonym to move to that step.

  3. Select Configure Posts Analysis to configure a Sentiment Analysis adapter or Next to move to the Create Synonym step.
  4. Select a radio button for a Sentiment Analysis adapter and click Configure Selected Adapter.
  5. Supply the required parameters for the specific adapter and click Configure.

    A confirmation message is displayed.

  6. Click Test to test the connection or Next to move to the Create Synonym step.


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Procedure: How to Use the Facebook Wizard to Create Synonyms
  1. Click Next from the Configure Posts Analysis Adapters pane, or select Create Synonym from the ribbon or navigation pane.

    The Select candidate(s) for Facebook pane opens, as shown in the following image.

  2. Enter an application in the Application field or click the selector (...) and navigate to one.
  3. Click Create Synonym.

    A confirmation message is displayed.

  4. Click Next.

    The Run, E-Mail, Schedule pane opens.



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Procedure: How to Use the Facebook Wizard to Run, Submit With Email or Schedule a Procedure

After you create a synonym, the Facebook Wizard moves to the Run, E-Mail, Schedule pane, as shown in the following image.

  1. Select a radio button for a specific procedure.
  2. Click Run to run the procedure.
  3. Click Submit with E-Mail to submit the procedure and specify start or completion email.

    The Submit procedure with E-Mail pane opens, as shown in the following image.

  4. To schedule the procedure, click Manage Schedule and Email.

    The Manage Schedule and E-Mail for procedure pane opens, as shown in the following image.

For information on email and scheduling options, see the Server Administration for UNIX, Windows, OpenVMS, IBM i, and z/OS manual.


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Adapter for Alchemy

The Adapter for Alchemy has been introduced in this release and is available as a named adapter on the Web Console in the Social Media folder. It provides sentiment analysis of documents or web pages.


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Adapter for WAND

The Adapter for WAND® has been introduced in this release and is available as a named adapter on the Web Console in the Social Media folder. It provides consumer sentiment analysis using software from WAND, Inc.


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Adapter for Words Analysis

The Adapter for Words Analysis has been introduced in this release and is available as a named adapter on the Web Console in the Social Media folder. It performs word analysis on text fields.


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Adapter for Twitter

The Adapter for Twitter® is a Candidate for Release and is available as a named adapter on the Web Console in the Social Media folder. It provides the ability to read tweets for a specific Screen Name and perform a search on words indexed by Twitter for tweets.

Note: The Twitter API only returns the last 3,200 tweets for a particular Screen Name.


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Twitter Wizard

How to:

The Twitter Wizard is a Candidate for Release.

The Twitter Wizard enables you to easily configure and use the Adapter for Twitter. You can:

The Twitter Wizard displays these steps on the ribbon and in the navigation pane, as shown in the following image.

The Twitter Wizard is available from Twitter icon above the main menu.



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Procedure: How to Use the Twitter Wizard to Create a Connection
  1. Launch the Twitter Wizard by clicking the Twitter icon above the main menu, as shown in the following image.

    The Add Twitter to Configuration pane opens, as shown in the following image.

  2. Enter a name in the Connection Name field.
  3. Enter the Twitter URL. The default value is:

    https://api.twitter.com

  4. Enter your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret. These values identify your application to Twitter.

    Obtain these values from the settings page of your Twitter application, as shown in the following image, at:

    https://dev.twitter.com/apps

  5. Enter your Access Token and Access Secret. These values identify the user that your application is acting on behalf of.

    Obtain these values from the settings page of your Twitter application at:

    https://dev.twitter.com/apps

  6. Select a profile from the drop-down menu. The default value is edaprof.
  7. Click Configure.

    A confirmation message is displayed.

  8. Click Test to test the configuration.

    Data from your Twitter account is displayed.

  9. Click Next to move to the Posts Analysis step.


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Procedure: How to Use the Twitter Wizard to Configure Adapters to Analyze Posts

Note: If you already have Posts Analysis adapters configured, the wizard will skip this step.

  1. Click Next from the Configure Connections pane, or select Posts Analysis from the ribbon or navigation pane.

    The Configure Words and Sentiment Analysis pane opens, as shown in the following image.

  2. Click Configure Selected Adapter to configure the Words Analysis adapter.

    A confirmation message is displayed, as shown in the following image.

    Alternately, if you have already configured the adapter, select Skip to Create Synonym to move to that step.

  3. Select Configure Posts Analysis to configure a Sentiment Analysis adapter or Next to move to the Create Synonym step.
  4. Select a radio button for a Sentiment Analysis adapter and click Configure Selected Adapter.
  5. Supply the required parameters for the specific adapter and click Configure.

    A confirmation message is displayed.

  6. Click Test to test the connection or Next to move to the Create Synonym step.


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Procedure: How to Use the Twitter Wizard to Create Synonyms
  1. Click Next from the Configure Posts Analysis pane, or select Create Synonym from the ribbon or navigation pane.

    The Select candidate(s) pane opens, as shown in the following image.

    Note: Candidates will appear for all of the Social Media adapters that you have configured.

  2. Enter an application in the Application field or click the selector (...) and navigate to one.
  3. Click Create Synonyms and Samples.

    A confirmation message is displayed.

  4. Click Next.

    The Run, E-Mail, Schedule pane opens.



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Procedure: How to Use the Twitter Wizard to Run, Submit With Email or Schedule a Procedure

After you create synonyms and samples, the Twitter Wizard moves to the Run, E-Mail, Schedule pane, as shown in the following image.

  1. Select a radio button for a specific procedure.
  2. Click Run to run the procedure.

    The Please enter value(s) for the following variable(s) pane opens, as shown in the following image.

    1. Enter values.
    2. Click Run.

      The results are displayed in a separate browser window, as show in the following image.

  3. Click Submit with E-Mail to submit the procedure and specify start or completion email.

    The Submit procedure with E-Mail pane opens, as shown in the following image.

  4. To schedule the procedure, click Manage Schedule and Email.

    The Manage Schedule and E-Mail for procedure pane opens, as shown in the following image.

For information on email and scheduling options, see the Server Administration for UNIX, Windows, OpenVMS, IBM i, and z/OS manual.


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