How to use the Heartbeat Shoutbox Plugin

Heartbeat has plugins that can act on streams or heartbeat messages directly.

One of those plugins, is the shoutbox plugin, which provides integration ofcourse with the shoutbox module.

How to enable this feature:
- Make sure heartbeat, heartbeat_plugins and shoutbox are enabled.
- Go to the administration of the streams and edit your stream.
- In the vertical tab pane "shoutbox", you enable the checkbox: this means you are prepending the "shoutbox-form" to the stream. This could break as it is written months ago and code of shoutbox can change :(
- Go to your stream and you should see the shoutbox.
- Now add a heartbeat message template that will represent your activity messages. (E.G. !username: !message)
- Add a rule where the event is "when a shoutbox messages is entered" and act on it with heartbeat activity logging. (I must say, at the time of coding this was not yet incorporated into shoutbox, but I created the event myself and posted it to shoutbox module, see #1267942: Shoutbox D7 Rules Integration

Well I hoped this small tutorial helped you. But as you might have read between the lines, it's not finished yet.
If you are a programmer, I would even recommend to not use Rules module for the logging but do the logging yourself by implementing the shoutbox hooks.

Kind regards

Hi Fred, it does. You should check out this thread for more information: http://drupal.org/node/1250324