Switch Core App Types

Learn how to change from one conversation App type to another.

Lifefyre allows you to change Collections from one Livefyre Core Application type to another (Comments, Live Blog, or Chat) by simply changing some settings in your collectionMeta data.

To implement a specific type of App, add a new field to your collectionMeta object. Comments is the default so you won’t need to make these updates if that is your desired App. To change to a different App after a Collection has been created, pass a checksum value during App initialization. Read more about creating a checksum value in our collectionMeta token documentation.

Live Blog

PHP Example

use LivefyreLivefyre; 
  
$articleId = "1"; 
$articleTitle = "Title 1"; 
$articleURL = "https://dev.livefyre.com"; 
$articleTags = "tag1,tag2"; 
$lfType = "livecomments"; 
  
$network = Livefyre::getNetwork(networkName, networkKey); 
$site = network->getSite(siteId, siteKey); 
  
$collectionMeta = $site->buildCollectionMetaToken( 
   $articleTitle, 
   $articleURL, 
   $articleTags, 
   $lfType 
); 
  
$convConfig = array( 
   "el" => "targetElement", 
   "checksum" => $checksum, 
   "collectionMeta" => $collectionMeta, 
   "siteId" => <YOUR SITE ID>, 
   "articleId" => <ARTICLE ID> 
);

Python Example

from livefyre import Livefyre 
  
article_id = "1" 
article_title = "Title 1" 
article_url = "https://dev.livefyre.com" 
article_tags = "tag1,tag2" 
lf_type = "livecomments" 
  
network = Livefyre.get_network(networkName, networkKey) 
site = network.get_site(siteId, siteKey) 
  
collection_meta = site.build_collection_meta_token( 
   article_title, 
   article_url, 
   article_tags, 
   lf_type, 
) 
  
conv_config = dict( 
   "el" = "targetElement", 
   "checksum" = checksum, 
   "collectionMeta" = collection_meta_token, 
   "siteId" = <YOUR SITE ID>, 
   "articleId" = <ARTICLE ID> 
)

Ruby Example

require 'livefyre'  
article_id = "1"  
title = "Title 1"  
link = "https://dev.livefyre.com"  
tag_str = "tag1,tag2"  
lf_type = "livecomments"  
  
network = Livefyre.get_network(networkName, networkKey)  
site = network.get_site(siteId, siteKey)  
  
collection_meta = site.build_collection_meta_token( 
   title, 
   link, 
   tag_str || "", 
   lf_type, 
)  
  
conv_config = { 
   :el => targetElement, 
   :checksum => checksum, 
   :collectionMeta => collection_meta_token, 
   :siteId => <YOUR SITE ID>, 
   :articleId => <ARTICLE ID> 
}

Live Blog

PHP Example

use LivefyreLivefyre; 
  
$articleId = "1"; 
$articleTitle = "Title 1"; 
$articleURL = "https://dev.livefyre.com"; 
$articleTags = "tag1,tag2"; 
$lfType = "liveblog"; 
  
$network = Livefyre::getNetwork(networkName, networkKey); 
$site = network->getSite(siteId, siteKey); 
  
$collectionMeta = $site->buildCollectionMetaToken( 
   $articleTitle, 
   $articleURL, 
   $articleTags, 
   $lfType 
); 
  
$convConfig = array( 
   "el" => "targetElement", 
   "checksum" => $checksum, 
   "collectionMeta" => $collectionMeta, 
   "siteId" => <YOUR SITE ID>, 
   "articleId" => <ARTICLE ID>  
);

Python Example

from livefyre import Livefyre 
  
article_id = "1" 
article_title = "Title 1" 
article_url = "https://dev.livefyre.com" 
article_tags = "tag1,tag2" 
lf_type = "liveblog" 
  
network = Livefyre.get_network(networkName, networkKey) 
site = network.get_site(siteId, siteKey) 
  
collection_meta = site.build_collection_meta_token( 
   article_title, 
   article_url, 
   article_tags, 
   lf_type, 
) 
  
conv_config = dict( 
   "el" = "targetElement", 
   "checksum" = checksum, 
   "collectionMeta" = collection_meta_token, 
   "siteId" = <YOUR SITE ID>, 
   "articleId" = <ARTICLE ID> 
)

Ruby Example

require 'livefyre' 
  
article_id = "1" 
title = "Title 1" 
link = "https://dev.livefyre.com" 
tag_str = "tag1,tag2" 
lf_type = "liveblog" 
  
network = Livefyre.get_network(networkName, networkKey) 
site = network.get_site(siteId, siteKey) 
  
collection_meta = site.build_collection_meta_token( 
   title, 
   link, 
   tag_str || "", 
   lf_type, 
) 
  
conv_config = { 
   :el => targetElement, 
   :checksum => checksum, 
   :collectionMeta => collection_meta_token, 
   :siteId => <YOUR SITE ID>, 
   :articleId => <ARTICLE ID> 
}

Chat

PHP

use LivefyreLivefyre; 
  
$articleId = "1"; 
$articleTitle = "Title 1"; 
$articleURL = "https://dev.livefyre.com"; 
$articleTags = "tag1,tag2"; 
$lfType = "livechat"; 
  
$network = Livefyre::getNetwork(networkName, networkKey); 
$site = network->getSite(siteId, siteKey); 
  
$collectionMeta = $site->buildCollectionMetaToken 
   $articleTitle, 
   $articleURL, 
   $articleTags, 
   $lfType 
); 
  
$convConfig = array( 
   "el" => "targetElement", 
   "checksum" => $checksum, 
   "collectionMeta" => $collectionMeta, 
   "siteId" => <YOUR SITE ID>, 
   "articleId" => <ARTICLE ID> 
);

Python Example

from livefyre import Livefyre 
  
article_id = "1" 
article_title = "Title 1" 
article_url = "https://dev.livefyre.com" 
article_tags = "tag1,tag2" 
lf_type = "livechat" 
  
network = Livefyre.get_network(networkName, networkKey) 
site = network.get_site(siteId, siteKey) 
  
collection_meta = site.build_collection_meta_token(  
   article_title,  
   article_url,  
   article_tags,  
   lf_type,  
)

conv_config = dict( "el" = "targetElement", 
   "checksum" = checksum, 
   "collectionMeta" = collection_meta_token, 
   "siteId" = <YOUR SITE ID>, 
   "articleId" = <ARTICLE ID> 
)

Ruby Example

require 'livefyre' 
  
article_id = "1" 
title = "Title 1" 
link = "https://dev.livefyre.com" 
tag_str = 'tag1,tag2' 
lf_type = 'livechat' 
  
network = Livefyre.get_network(networkName, networkKey) 
site = network.get_site(siteId, siteKey) 
  
collection_meta = site.build_collection_meta_token(  
   title,  
   link, 
   tag_str || "", 
   lf_type, 
) 
  
conv_config = { 
   :el => targetElement, 
   :checksum => checksum, 
   :collectionMeta => collection_meta_token, 
   :siteId => <YOUR SITE ID>, 
   :articleId => <ARTICLE ID> 
}