IBM Connections Cloud extreme customization

Vienna, November 16-17 2017
IBM Connections Cloud
Customization “EXTREME”
Daniele Vistalli, AppFusions / Factor-y S.r.l.
Martin Donnelly, IBM
@DanieleVistalli @TweeterDonnelly

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About Daniele Vistalli
• Entrepreneur, architect, reverse engineer
• Sysadmin/Dev on IBM Connections since 1.0
(yes, it actually existed and worked)
• CEO of Factor-y & Cloud-y (IBM Collaboration
focused BPs)
• Technical Advisor of AppFusions for anything
related Connections

Please Note…
I’m not IBM, no disclaimer here, no NDA stuff, just real
stuff
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given that an individual user will achieve results similar to those stated here.

About Martin Donnelly
• IBM Ireland
• App Dev Architect IBM ICS

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Get ready, fasten your seatbelt
• We have one entire hour
• I hope you got coffee
• 40 minutes: Show & Tell
• 20 minutes: “Unconference”, dream
together

Can customization “really” happen ?
• A lot can be done
• Little is known / exploited in depth
• We try to share our experience

Get your toolkit
• https://ngrok.io
• https://caddyserver.com
• http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
• https://www.getpostman.com/
• Your browser’s dev tools….

Customization types

A lot of customization types
• Data
• Visual
• Integration

Navigation customizations

Banner (aka Top Navigation Bar)
• You can use app-registry UI
• Something more is possible
• https://github.com/Factor-y/ConnectionsCloudHowTo/
• Positioning
• Drop downs
• Icons in UI (top level only)

DEMO

Profile customizations

What you can do
• A few custom fields (look in admin section
to add)
• https://apps.ce.collabserv.com/contacts/orgprofiles/viewProfileFi
elds
• Reporting hierarchy
• Requires “integration server” enablement
• Check well hidden examples

Files customizations

Add “create” and “open” actions
• What for ?
• Where it shows up ?
• Usage ideas and samples
Documentation is here
Limits ? It only works in files, not in community
files

Activity streams customization

Contribute to the stream
• Actionable stuff
• Embedded experiences
• Guessing the future
• Orient me
• Embedded Experiences Next

Community customizations

Community Apps, what’s known
Official technote about Connections Cloud
https://www-
10.lotus.com/ldd/appdevwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=Dev+Guide+topics#action=openDocument&res_title=Creating_Communitie
s_apps_with_the_URL_Widget&content=sdkcontent
This document is telling you just a part of the truth….
How many have «tried» building a Community App Widget ?

Secret stuff… mostly on pair with on-
prem
• The Community App and how it maps to
iWidget
• How to take advantage of it
• Skills required for building

Customizer’s customizations
Here things get “magic”

What we are going to achieve
• Customizations for Homepage & Profiles
• Same power of Community apps in
homepage & profiles
• Micro-apps that can use Connections API
(same-origin security thanks to
Customizer)
• Use your imagination, you tell, we build

Floyd – Customizer extension
Floyd (Apache 2 licensed, from AppFusions)
• A library you can use
• A set of JS API we add to manipulate ui
• Makes it easy for devs
• Many «hurdles» taken away from you
• A «container» technology for iframes with messaging
• A «context» detector set of services to make development easy

Preparation
• Introducing «Caddy Server»
• you can use greasemokney/tampermonkey but I
prefer Caddy
• Why you want a «middle-man»
• Save – Reload experience developers will love

Pilot & Enablement for Customizer
• Customizer pilot is «ongoing»
• 40 orgs enabled
• 11 contestants
• New features added
• OpenCode4Connections

IBM Connections Cloud extreme customization

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