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It is a common task in enterprise social scenarios to retrieve all followed documents for an user. This code snipped shows how to achieve that, plus, how to check if an user actually should have right at all to follow that particular document, since following...

Following documents on behalf of users in a common and obligatory task in enterprise social scenarios. Think of onboarding procedures: each employee must follow the "company rules" document, and get notified when this document periodically updates. This is not...

Getting the sites that a specific user follows in SharePoint 2013 enterprise social scenarios is a common requirement. Here is the code snipped which does the job 😉 using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) { SPServiceContext context =...

Following sites on behalf of users in a common and obligatory task in enterprise social scenarios. Think of onboarding procedures: everyone from HR must follow a HR team site, for example. This is not possible with SharePoint Client Object Model, bit it is an easy...

A common and important task in SharePoint 2013 social scenarios is to get followed users for an user, or to get user's followers programmatically. Here are the necessary code snippets, they are pretty self-explanatory 😉 To get followed users: using (SPSite...

In enterprise social scenarios, imposing following users on behalf of another user is actually a must. Just think of the internal procedures - everyone from HR needs to follow the head of the HR department, since he's going to publish important info on the different...