Release Notes

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Release Notes for Cisco SocialMiner Release 8.5(4) October 17, 2011
New and Changed Features
Step 9 After saving a feed, navigate to the SocialMiner Configuration tab. The feed displays in the Feed gadget
list. Feed names are truncated at 85 characters.
Step 10 Proceed as you would with any feed to edit the name, description, polling interval, and minimum age;
and to add automatic tags.
Step 11 Add the feed to a campaign.
Extension Fields
Extension fields are a collection of custom name/value pairs that can be added to social contacts. You
can add extension fields using the Push feed API. You can also add them by modifying the sample form
in the Push feed gadget.
You can add a maximum of 100 extension fields (up to one megabyte of information).
The sample code below shows the addition of extension fields: "remarks," "comments,"
"customerFirstName," and "customerLastName.”
<style type='text/css'>span {display: inline-block; width: 100px;}</style>
<form action='http://10.86.141.221/ccp-webapp/ccp/pushfeed/115538' method='get'>
<span>Title:</span><input type='text' name='title' /><br/>
<span>Author:</span><input type='text' name='author' /><br/>
<span>Description:</span><input type='text' name='description' /><br/>
<span>Tags:</span><input type='text' name='tags' /><br/>
<span>Remarks:</span><input type='text' name='extensionField_remarks' value='sample value'
/><br>
<span>Comments:</span><input type='text' name='extensionField_comments' value='sample
value' /><br>
<span>Customer First Name:</span><input type='text' name='extensionField_customerFirstName'
value='sample value' /><br>
<span>Customer Last Name:</span><input type='text'
/><br>
<input type='submit' value='Submit'/>
</form>
Extension fields take the format shown in the code sample above: name='extensionField_name'
value='value'.
You can add social contact extension field data to e-mail and IM notifications by including extension
fields as Notification Body Variables.
There are two new notification variables:
• ${SC_EXTENSION_FIELDS.<fieldname>}—This variable adds a specific, named extension field
value. If the extension field does not exist, the macro itself will appear in the notification message
body.
• ${SC_EXTENSION_FIELDS}—This variable adds all extension fields that exist for the social
contact. They appear in the body in alphabetical order by name, in the format Name: Value. If no
value was defined, you see Name: (—). If there are no extension fields, the variable is removed from
the message body.