A micro-messaging bookmarklet, a feature of Ektron's Community Platform, lets you use a micro-message to inform colleagues about a Web page without leaving it. To create this micro-message:
NOTE: In Internet Explorer, these toolbar shortcuts are known as favorites. In Firefox, they are known as bookmarks. This documentation calls them bookmarks.
Prerequisite
To enable the Bookmarklet feature, a developer places a Bookmarklet server controlA server control uses API language to interact with the CMS and Framework UI to display the output. A server control can be dragged and dropped onto a Web form and then modified. on a page and (if desired) Review and modify the post to profile form.
Before you can use the Micro-messaging bookmarklet feature, add a Bookmarklet link to your bookmark toolbar or menu.
NOTE: The text of the Micro-messaging bookmarklet link changes according to the user's browser. Also, the image above text reflects default text; developers can easily change it.
NOTE: If you are not logged in to Ektron, you are prompted to do so.
The micro-message appears in the user's Activity Stream if it is set up to track micro-messages.
Ektron provides the following sample form to appear when a user clicks the Micro-messaging bookmarklet link on the browser's Bookmarks menu.
The sample form is siteroot/Workarea/
. To modify this form or create your own, enter the new path into the Micro-messaging Bookmarklet server control's share.aspx
FormURL
property.
Here are a few things to note about this form's behavior.
PopupHeight
and PopupWidth
properties.