Overview

The Auto-Follow Extension is a Jive Professional Services plugin that allows a community manager to set up a series of rules that will force-follow a user to any number of different People, Places, or Blogs.

AutoFollow has the following two database tables associated with it:

• Autofollowentry Table
• Autofollowmapping Table

This article provides detailed information on the fields and the corresponding values used in the aforementioned database tables by the Auto-Follow plugin.

 

Information

Autofollowentry Table

The following table contains the rules for the AutoFollow plugin. If the plugin is removed, these records stay in the database, but the rules will no longer run.

Field	Value/Explanation
autofollowid	This contains the unique ID for the auto-follow rule.
timestamp	Epoch timestamp of when the rule was created.
sourcestrategytype	This will be all, profile_field, or user_group.
fieldid	The profile field (if any) the rule relates to.
groupid	The container (if any) the rule relates to.
objectid	The object (if any) the rule relates to.
objecttype	The object type the rule relates to.
streamname	The custom stream this should go into.
fieldvalue	The profile field (if any) the rule relates to.

Autofollowmapping Table

This table contains the auto-follow rules which were executed and which users they were executed for:

Field	Value/Explanation
autofollowid	The auto-follow rule executed.
userid	The user it is executed on.

 

Related Article

Also, see the article: Jive Auto-Follow Extension FAQ for more information on commonly asked questions on the Auto-Follow plugin.