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SuzieH
Khoros Alumni (Retired)
5 years ago

Would you like to see developer-centric meetups?

Hello! I'm looking for some input/feedback on the idea of virtual, developer-centric meetups around Khoros platform APIs. The goal would be to extend our Khoros Developer community experience and sh...
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jeffshurtliff
Boss

This would be amazing and unbelievably helpful!  

(I was a little disappointed to find that there were no Developer tracks in Khoros Engage since this was a fairly large part of JiveWorld back in the day, so I had assumed Engage would be similar.)

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SuzieH
Khoros Alumni (Retired)
5 years ago

Thanks jeffshurtliff. Any opinion on the type of discussions/events you'd like to see outside of Engage? The type/format of the content/discussion?

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    jeffshurtliff
    Boss
    5 years ago

    Hi SuzieH ,

    Here are some off-the-cuff thoughts of what I think would be super useful:

    Automation and Customizing the UX
    I think it would be awesome to have discussions around creative ways to handle administrative tasks or UI functionality using custom components/macros/functions/endpoints, for example:

    • Access control and user/role management
    • Group hub membership
    • Serving/promoting personalized content to users based on personas, interests, products they own, etc.
    • Navigation and menus
    • Automation around content curation and publishing, such as:
      • Systematic (but silent) tagging and labeling
      • "Staging" pre-release content and then systematically "launching" it
    • Moderator tools and automations

    Best Practices
    It would be extremely helpful to have discussions (with examples) around development best practices that go beyond and/or complements what is in the documentation, such as:

    • Developing with performance in mind
    • Recommendations (beyond just using endpoints) for cutting down on the amount of REST calls
    • Recommendations around user, component and app caching
    • Using the SDK and managing collaboration with multiple dev teams (e.g. VCS)

    Deep Dives
    I'd love to see some deep dive sessions around different API endpoints/functionality (e.g. updating/moving messages, handling attachments, managing events, etc.), FreeMarker (e.g. a working session around creating high-level macros) and using jQuery/AngularJS within FreeMarker including the different undocumented methods/functionalities for LITHIUM.jQuery and when to use them.

    Integrations
    It would be very enlightening to find out how people have built and implemented integrations with various third-party systems and platforms.  (For example, we are currently implementing a custom integration with Madcap Flare, and I'm sure other customers have built some pretty cool integrations into other systems.)

    I hope this helps!