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Using GroupWise to keep up with Twitter

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20 May 2009 - 3:54pm
Submitted by: mbrady

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I recently decided to jump on the bandwagon, and use Twitter to post a little content, and to follow some folks I find interesting. I spend a good portion of my day with GroupWise open, so it was natural to try and use GroupWise to read Twitter updates. GroupWise provides a couple different ways to keep up with Twitter. Of course you can use a "web panel" to embed the web version of Twitter as a GW Panel. If you will be primarily reading content, then using the RSS feed option of Twitter is a good way to go.

GroupWise 8 has the ability to read RSS feeds, so it's a natural to use it for reading Twitter content. To set this up follow these easy steps:

  • Login to your Twitter account in a web browser.
  • On the right hand side of the screen, click on the RSS Feed link under the word "Following"
  • Now you will be prompted to login, use your Twitter ID and password.
  • You should get a URL similar to http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/999999.rss
  • Select the URL and copy it.
  • Now, pull up Groupwise, and click on File > New > RSS Feed
  • You should get a window like this:
  • Paste the URL into the Source field, and give the folder a name that makes sense to you. Also set the update frequency, and check the box for "This RSS Feed requires authentication", filling in your Twitter login and password. Click OK.

Now you should have the Twitter feed in the "GroupWise Feed" folder. Once more step is to set the display mode of the Twitter feed to "message preview". Get to this by right click the feed, choose properties, and click on the display tab. Message preview is a check box on the right side of the window, about mid way down. This will allow you to see the entire tweet without having to double click on it.

You could combine this RSS Feed folder with a web panel to have a nice Twitter view in GroupWise. That would allow you to tweet as well as read.


Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.




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gburg's picture

GroupWise people on Twitter

Submitted by gburg on 21 May 2009 - 4:51am.

Alex Evans http://twitter.com/thegroupwisepm GroupWise Product Manager
Dean Lythgoe http://twitter.com/GroupWise_Info Director of Engineering
John Dragoon http://twitter.com/jkdragoon Chief Marketing Officer for Novell
Justin Steinman http://twitter.com/justinsteinman VP Marketing Novell
Ken Muir http://twitter.com/kwmuir CTO Workgroup Solutions
Phil Karren http://twitter.com/pkarren Novell Collaboration Product Manager
Tony Anderson http://twitter.com/thegrpwisetestr GroupWise Tester

- Novell

NovellTalks http://twitter.com/NovellTalks Novell on twitter
NovellEvents http://twitter.com/NovellEvents upcoming Novell events

- GroupWise Partners

Avansys http://twitter.com/Advansys
GWAVA http://twitter.com/GWAVA
Omni TS http://twitter.com/OmniTS
Research In Motion http://twitter.com/BlackBerry

and of course
NGW List http://twitter.com/ngwlist

BTW my Twitter is
http://twitter.com/gwcheck

Gert
GWCheck.com

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Linux?

Submitted by toharris on 21 May 2009 - 9:59am.

Any way to get this working in the Linux version of GW 8? My version:

Program Release: 8.0.1 Beta 5/12/2009 (gwclient.jar)
Build Number: 87303.9458
Java Runtime Version : 1.6.0_12-b04 (http://java.sun.com/)
Platform: Linux / 2.6.27.21-0.1-pae / i386

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