I have been looking all over for some sort of information that allows me to tie them all together. I have a pretty decent understanding of FB Style status / micropublisher so far and have the following set up.

*Panels 3.0 - as a page/url called stream
* A view in the center block of panels
** facebook_status_recent (Latest Status)
** Latest status is the default of this view
* Block in content type with Facebook-style Statuses , limited to page stream

all that works as you can see here, http://grab.by/89iL (tinygrab) url

what I dont get and or understand fully is how to use HeartBeat and Activity.

What im aming for is to allow status updates, which I have for the most part working..

What I would like is also that when a user posts a new node , lets call it foo that it shows up in this stream as well.

Something like

User submitted foo (teaser text) [comment box]

can someone shed a bit of light on how this process works and are both Heart Beat and Activity required?

Happy New Years!!

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pribeh’s picture

pribeh commented

Hi gateway69,

Heart Beat and Activity do essentially the same thing.

The Activity module is used to log "Activities" of the various activities of your users. So, if a user posts a status or node then the Activity module can record a token based statement for each activity and then display them within an Activity View.

To use Activity you must first setup an Activity Publisher Template (admin/build/activity) for each activity you want it to record a statement for. There are lots of tokens to choose from to build your template. Once you have an activity template setup for both FBS-statuses as well as nodes you can then turn to Views. Create an "Activity" View (make sure to select activity and not nodes or statuses). Then make sure to select "Activity Message" as a field.

If you require any more help than this just send me an email :)

This issue queue is jam packed with other support requests like this.

jcisio’s picture

jcisio commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Or add more instructions to the documentation page ;)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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sanjith commented

Hi all

Is possible to update the recent activity using graph api ?

Legasy api not available for long time
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/dashboard.publishActi...

I tried with this example I failed ?

Is there any option to update the recent activity using graph