Re: [CONVERGE-DEV] Facebook Publication

[Allan L. C. <al...@i2...>]

Good question Sabry. You can actually do it in both ways. The approach to chose depends on your taste as well as the nature of the stories that you are publishing.  My recommendation is to have a separate Outlet for Facebook (or any publishing destination) if the content to be published on Facebook is not a complete copy of an edition of another Outlet.  For example, if you have an outlet called "My Newspaper", and ALL stories published in this outlet should automatically be published on Facebook, then it would be a waste to have a separate Outlet. You could just as well build your plug-in to take all the stories in "My Newspaper" and publish it on Facebook.   However, if you want to hand pick stories for Facebook from "My Newspaper" and other outlets, then I recommend that you have a separate outlet called Facebook.   By having a separate outlet you have more flexibility in terms of what you want to publish.   In both cases you'd want to implement it as an EditionAction and/or WorkflowAction.

Hope that helps.

Allan


On 17/09/2012, at 21.26, Muhammad Sabry Ali <Muh...@ho...> wrote:

> Dear Mr. Allan,
> 
>    I was wondering if I am to create a new plug-in to publish the news items on Facebook, what exactly should Facebook mean to the system, I mean should I continue with the plug-in creation and treating Facebook as no more than an external object from the system, much as you do with Joomla, or should I treat it differently as an Outlet, and for each new-item that has a placement on that outlet is to be published on it. I would like to know your thoughts regarding such a scenario.
> 
> Regards
> 
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> Muhammad Sabry Ali
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