Make social activity tracking configurable

• Type: Story
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Completed
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: Master
• Component/s: Social Activity
• Labels:
  • fc_20_05
• Epic/Theme:
  • Social_Office
• Sprint: LIMA | #18 | May05-May26, LIMA | #19 | May26-Jun16
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/liferay-lima/liferay-portal/pull/59

As a site admin

I want to be able to configure whether or not I want to track my users

so that it is not bloating the database in case I don't need it

and makes upgrades easier

 

Acceptance criteria

Given a Liferay instance

When social tracking is disabled

Then the activities of the users are not tracked and stored in the DB

 

Given a Liferay instance

When social tracking is enabled

Then the activities of the users are tracked and stored in the DB

Test Scenarios

ID	Test Priority	Test Scenarios	Covered by Backend (Unit/Integration)?	Test to add
1.1	5	User activities do not appear in Portal when social tracking is disabled	NO	SocialActivity#DisableSocialTracking
1.2	5	User activities are not stored in the DB when social tracking is disabled	NO	Manual
1.3	5	User activities appear in Portal when social tracking is enabled	NO	SocialActivity#CountUserStatisticsWhenEnablingSocialTracking
1.4	5	Users activities are stored in the DB when social tracking is enabled	NO	Manual
1.5	5	User is given an option to enable/disable social tracking through the Portal UI	NO	SocialActivity#DisableSocialTracking
1.6	5	User is given an option to enable/disable social tracking through the backend	NO	NA