Auto populate Web form for marketers Form (WFFM) Fields With social data using social connected Sitecore 8+

In previous post i have shown you how to get the social data using social connected.


Now we will see how to auto populate these data to a web form for marketers Form Fields.

Prerequisite:-

1. Sitecore 8+
2. Web form for marketers module
3. Social connected configured.

We will be fetching LinkedIn data to a WFFM form using LinkedIn Login.

Step1- Setting up WFFM form in page.

 For adding a form in page create a form item in sitecore.

Step2- Assign WFFM form to page and add LinkedIn login control

Step 3 - Configuring Form fields 

To set default value to a form field we can set Rules.

• Click on form item go to form designer
• Select any field and scroll to bottom of the left panel.

By default sitecore provides few default action.

• Hide element
• Use value from query string
• Use value from profiles specific field
• Use value from specific visitor tag

But since we have to populate the social data we can not use above rules.
For populating social data we need to create a new rule.

Step 4- Creating new WFFM action rule.

• Navigate to "/sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Definitions/Elements/Web Forms for Marketers Actions"
• Right click and insert new Action.
• Provide your custom method and reference details. As below.

Method- SCcustom.ReadPropertyFromMongo

using Sitecore.Security.Accounts;

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using Sitecore.Diagnostics;

using Sitecore;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using System.Reflection;

using Sitecore.Social.Api;

namespace SCcustom

{

    public class ReadPropertyFromMongo<T> : Sitecore.Forms.Core.Rules.ReadValue<T> where T : Sitecore.Forms.Core.Rules.ConditionalRuleContext

    {

        private string Network { get; set; }

        protected override object GetValue()

        {

          

            try

            {

                string networkname = "LinkedIn";

                networkname = Network;

                // Sitecore.Context.User.Profile.GetCustomProperty("soc_PrimaryNetwork") ;

                var socialProfile = new SocialProfileManager();

               

                // Do we have an extra profile from the user?

                if (socialProfile.SocialProfileExists(Sitecore.Context.User.Name, networkname))

                {

                    var soProfile = socialProfile.GetSocialProfile(Sitecore.Context.User.Name, networkname);

                    try

                    {

                        return soProfile.Fields[Name];

                    }

                    catch

                    { return ""; }

                }

                return "";

            }

            catch

            { return "network error"; }

        }

     

    }

}

Now we have to pass two parameters from Sitecore-"Name" and "Network" from Sitecore.

Custom rule will look for the "ln-headline" property in context user's Linkedin social profile. If any value is found it will return the value else it will return blank.

Below is the Output