I am interested in having a feature where users data from linkedin can be mapped with the profile in drupal. Suppose I have a field interests or skills, I can sync it with the data from linkedin.

Is there an easy way to do this ?

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pmarx commented

Did anything every happen with this? I'm interested in doing something very similar

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davad commented
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I think this is actually out of the scope of the linkedin module itself. To implement this, we'd have to make some opinionated decisions about where the information is synced. And in Drupal, there are tons of ways to implement user profiles. Syncing should probably stay in glue code.

That being said, it should be pretty simple. What are you using for user profiles?

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pmarx commented

My overall goal is to import the skills from users as parameters determining if they're qualified for certain volunteer projects, and matching them up with them if they are. The motivation for importing from linkedin was to lower the barrier for users, and also to have a pre-made taxonomy of skills (which linkedin provides) to simplify matching

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pmarx commented

Also sorry if I didn't answer your question right, I'm on drupal 7, I believe just using the standard install for profiles. I'm fairly new to drupal so if that's not what you meant please let me know

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davad commented

That's an interesting application.

To do something like this, you'll likely need to write some code. After you enable the LinkedIn profile integration and enable profile display (set "Profile Display" to anything other than "Disabled" on admin/config/services/linkedin), the profile values are accessible programmatically on the user object ($user->linkedin).

One problem, I don't think this module grabs the skills field from LinkedIn right now.

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delvalle commented

Hi davad, could you please elaborate a little bit more on how to display the profile values using the user object ($user->linkedin)??

I'm not a programmer, so a complete sample code would be great, but if that's not possible I would also appreciate links to relevant documentation where I could learn it by myself.

I would like to display 3 Linkedin fields (photo, name and company) in user profiles and also directly in the comments of the nodes.

Thanks in advance and sorry if I'm asking a bit too much here.

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ibuildit commented
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I have built one by adapting this module, will try and sort out a patch for it soon.

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oss-usa.com commented

ibuildit,

did you finished patch? Where we can review it?