AEM Communities Forum Post and Activity Stream

[Shubham_borole]

Hello,

I am using  a custom implementation of forums where "social/forum/components/hbs/forum" is extended. When making a forum post I see that the related 'activity' entry

is created with id  as "id": "/content/usergenerated/asi/mongo/content/project/en/root/activitystreams/activities/community/b8554901-55af-4cd8-a698-a944aa1c7fac"

However when I test the same in we retail or geometrixx I see that the related "activity" entry looks like "id": "/content/usergenerated/asi/mongo/content/sites/activitystreams/activities/community/c9a103b5-8491-40a6-84f7-c4bd9187541d"

How can this be controlled? Why does the activity entry for custom implementation pick the stream path as "/content/project/en/root" instead of "/content/sites"?

I have tried extending com.adobe.cq.social.forum.client.endpoints.ForumOperationExtension to see if I can set something in the beforeAction(Operation operation, Session session, Resource resource, Map<String, Object> properties) method, but doesn't look like.

Please update if something is missed or any other way to achieve this.

The reason I am looking in specified way is because I am looking to have these activities in activity stream and the activities are only displayed if the id is as mentioned above with "/content/sites/"

Regards,

Shubham

Using AEM 6.2 FP3 SP1

[Shubham_borole]

Update:

For following sentence in my actual question:

It is true for geometrixx-outdoors at location http://localhost:6503/content/geometrixx-outdoors/en/community/hiking/forum.html .

For We-retail the activity entry looks like following

"/content/usergenerated/asi/mongo/content/we-retail/activitystreams/activities/community/404fc48e-69f2-40f0-8571-66d32a02f7ca"

It seems some factor is determining the "/content/we-retail" (community site based) or "/content/sites" (general root based) in the activity stream location/provider_id.

Please help if any one has an idea.

Regards,

Shubham

[kautuk_sahni]

Checking this with the team!!

[Rahul_Bhardwaj · Accepted solution]

Shubam - It's determined by the site root you give while creating the site.

Look for Community Site Root in [0].

[0] - Author a New Community Site

[Shubham_borole]

Thanks Rahul. I noticed a property isCommunitySite at the jcr:content node of the root I selected probably added while community site creation but not because of what.

I have created a community site under /content/project/en/category/ and the root while creating community being the same, hence the activity entries under the community contain /content/project/en/category/ in id. Open question: Is it a best practice to keep the root as /content/project/en/category/ in this case or leaving blank is also fine?

[Rahul_Bhardwaj]

Leaving it blank is as acceptable and efficient as putting any valid path!