We are prepping for the hard launch of our community, and are exploring ways to display community widgets (showing recent discussions, posts, top kudoed authors, etc) in an external location (namely, our product). Where should I be looking to begin this process? Is it in studio? Do I need to include a developer? Thanks!
You will have the greatest flexiblity by making use of our REST API. Just search for that at the community level to get our orientation doc and the java docs (list of all the available methods). That will give you the calls (URLs) to use. When you use those call we will return either XML or JSON, which you will then need to parse and format on your pages. You will need a developer who is familiar with those steps and has access to your web pages. The alternative is ActiveCast. You can search on that too. It is much more limited in the content that it can provide, but for the items it covers, it returns javascript, so it is easier to place on your page.
