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Yammer Import Plugin
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This plugin allows a one-time import pulling user accounts, groups, and
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public messages from an existing Yammer instance, using Yammer's public API.
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Requirements
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* An account on the Yammer network you wish to import from
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* An administrator account on the target StatusNet instance, or
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command-line administrative access
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* This YammerImport plugin enabled on your StatusNet instance
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Limitations
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Yammer API key registrations only work for your own network unless you make
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arrangements for a 'trusted app' key, so for now users will need to register
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the app themselves. There is a helper in the admin panel for this.
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In theory any number of users, groups, and messages should be supported, but
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it hasn't been fully tested on non-trivial-sized sites.
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No provision has yet been made for dealing with conflicting usernames or
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group names, or names which are not considered valid by StatusNet. Errors
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are possible.
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Running via the web admin interface requires having queueing enabled, and is
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fairly likely to have problems with the application key registration step in
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a small installation at this time.
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Web setup
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The import process is runnable through an administration panel on your
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StatusNet site. The user interface is still a bit flaky, however, and if
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errors occur during import the process may stop with no way to restart it
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visible.
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The admin interface will probably kinda blow up if JS/AJAX isn't working.
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You'll be prompted to register the application and authenticate into Yammer,
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after which a progress screen will display.
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Two big warnings:
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* The progress display does not currently auto-refresh.
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* If anything fails once actual import has begun, it'll just keep showing
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the current state. You won't see an error message, and there's no way
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to reset or restart from the web UI yet.
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You can continue or reset the import state using the command-line script.
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CLI setup
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You'll need to register an application consumer key to allow the importer
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to connect to your Yammer network; this requires logging into Yammer:
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https://www.yammer.com/client_applications/new
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Check all the 'read' options; no 'write' options are required, but Yammer
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seems to end up setting them anyway.
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You can set the resulting keys directly in config.php:
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$config['yammer']['consumer_key'] = '#####';
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$config['yammer']['consumer_secret'] = '##########';
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Initiate authentication by starting up the importer script:
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php plugins/YammerImport/scripts/yammer-import.php
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Since you haven't yet authenticated, this will request an auth token and
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give you a URL to open in your web browser. Once logged in and authorized
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there, you'll be given a confirmation code. Pass this back:
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php plugins/YammerImport/scripts/yammer-import.php --verify=####
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If all is well, the import process will begin and run through the end.
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In case of error or manual abort, you should be able to continue the
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import from where you left off by running the script again:
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php plugins/YammerImport/scripts/yammer-import.php
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To reset the Yammer import state -- without removing any of the items
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that have already been imported -- you can pass the --reset option:
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php plugins/YammerImport/scripts/yammer-import.php --reset
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This'll let you start over from the requesting-authentication stage.
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Any users, groups, or notices that have already been imported will be
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retained.
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Subscriptions and group memberships
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Yammer's API does not expose user/tag subscriptions or group memberships
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except for the authenticating user. As a result, users will need to re-join
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groups and re-follow their fellow users after the import.
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(This limitation may be lifted in future for sites on the Silver or Gold
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plans where the import is done by a verified admin, as it should be possible
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to fetch the information for each user via the admin account.)
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Authentication
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Account passwords cannot be retrieved, but the primary e-mail address is
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retained so users can reset their passwords by mail if you're not using a
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custom authentication system like LDAP.
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Private messages and groups
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At this time, only public messages are imported; private direct and group
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messages are ignored. (This may change with Silver and Gold plans in future.)
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Yammer groups may be either public or private. Groups in StatusNet currently
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have no privacy option, so any private groups will become public groups in the
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imported site.
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Attachments
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Attached image and document files will be copied in as if they had been
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uploaded to the StatusNet site. Currently images do not display inline like
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they do on Yammer; they will be linked instead.
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File type and size limitations on attachments will be applied, so beware some
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attachments may not make it through.
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Code structure
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Standalone classes
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YammerRunner: encapsulates the iterative process of retrieving the various users,
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groups, and messages via SNYammerClient and saving them locally
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via YammerImporter.
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SNYammerClient: encapsulates HTTP+OAuth interface to Yammer API, returns data
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as straight decoded JSON object trees.
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YammerImporter: encapsulates logic to pull information from the returned API data
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and convert them to native StatusNet users, groups, and messages.
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Web UI actions
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YammeradminpanelAction: web panel for site administrator to initiate and monitor
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the import process.
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Command-line scripts
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yammer-import.php: CLI script to start a Yammer import run in one go.
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Database objects
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Yammer_state: data object storing YammerRunner's state between iterations.
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Yammer_notice_stub: data object for temporary storage of fetched Yammer messages
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between fetching them (reverse chron order) and saving them
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to local messages (forward chron order).
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Yammer_user,
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Yammer_group,
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Yammer_notice: data objects mapping original Yammer item IDs to their local copies.
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