Imagination Unleashed ~ Building a social business app Think apps are just a black box on a page? Think they're confined to a dashboard? Think again!! This session will expand your mind and show you how to unleash your imagination and the power of your enterprise social graph by using apps to innovate on the Jive platform. You'll see how to make your app available in the stream, at the user's fingertips when creating content, and virtually anywhere in the Jive platform. We'll also explore the high level architecture of the Jive Apps Market and discuss the best practices for developing a social business application.

1. Jive Apps Development 101:
Unlock Imagination
Mark Weitzel
Director, Platform & Ecosystem, Jive Software
President, OpenSocial Foundation
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2. Introductions
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/weitzelm
• Twitter: weitzelm
• Did you know…
I spent 20 hours hacking at Jive World?
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3. Objectives
• Understand what an app is & how it differs from other
integration strategies
• Understand how the Jive Apps Market works
• Unleash your imagination!
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4. Agenda
• What is a Jive App?
• Where does your business logic live?
• How do I solve business problems with Apps?
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5. What is a Jive App?
“It‟s a dessert topping AND a floor wax!”
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6. What is a Jive App?
A Jive App is the fastest, easiest, most simple,
and recommended way to extend the Jive UI
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7. Quick Launcher
Accessed through quick launcher in one click
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8. Full page “Canvas View”
Open app’s full page, or “canvas” view
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9. Action Contributions
Contribute a “action” to a “path”
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10. Action Contributions
!App Mentioning brings up app menu items
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11. Action Contributions
!App Mentioning brings up app menu items
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12. Action Artifact
!App Artifact brings up an “embedded” view
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13. Why build a Jive App
Solve problems not part of Jive’s OOTB experience
Graphical editing – Lucidchart
Recognizing co-workers – Props
Quick reference and lookups – Wikipedia, phone search
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14. Defining an app ~ app.xml
• Information about the app
• What “features” i.e. additional javascript to include
• How the app will be rendered, i.e. the views
• What’s necessary for a nice market listing, screenshots, et.
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15. Explore an app.xml
• Let’s take a look at an example app.xml
• Here are some interesting features…
Dynamic Height/Width
MiniMessage
OAuth Popup
Action Contribution / Selections
• Most features are defined by OpenSocial
Jive has extended for core api & the connects api
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16. Section Summary
We learned:
• What a Jive app is & how extends the UI
• The structure of an definition, the app.xml
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17. How„s it all work?
“Be your own dentist!” Rube Goldberg
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18. How Apps Work
• It’s as easy as A, B, C
A. Request is made to render a
page containing an app
B. Jive looks up the app
definition
C. Processes the definition to
render HTML
Web Server(s)
Jive Edge
Jive Content What Matters
App.xml
App Framework
Jive Core V3 Other Features
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19. How Apps Work
• … and D, E, F
App "Home Server"
Where the business logic lives!
CRM
CMS
HRIS
Custom
Business Logic
D. App makes a request
Jive Edge
E. Jive “proxies” the request
Jive Content What Matters
to home server
App Framework
Jive Core V3 Other Features
F. Home server process
request and returns
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20. What about security?
• Use osapi.http.get(…) to avoid cross domain issues
• OAuth
2-Legged
Three Legged
• Jive Connects
Other auth schemes
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21. Section Summary
We learned:
• How an app is rendered inside a Jive page
• How JavaScript is injected to support features
• The proper technique for making AJAX calls
• How security works for apps
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22. Jive Apps Market
“You know, magic markets don't appear all the time,
so you take advantage of them.” Marc Andreessen
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23. Overview of Jive Apps Market
• Only one Jive Apps Market
• Unique “view” of the listings
• Admin control
• Local publishing of apps
• “In situ” installation
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24. Patterns of a social business app
“There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old,
and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional
buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which
man feels at home, have always been made by people who were
very close to the center of this way.” Christopher Alexander
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25. How do you leverage social context?
• One click pattern
• Send social data to your home server via Action Contributions
• Pull information from your home server: !App Mentioning
• Deliver information to the user via the Activity Stream
“What’s the matter man?” Mick Jagger, Miss You
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26. Action Contributions
Pattern: Pull information from Jive into your home server
• App “contributes” an “action” to Jive
• Well defined extension points, i.e. “paths”
• Passed the social context when rendered
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27. !App Mentioning
Pattern: Embed information from your home server into Jive content
• Focused, single purpose, interaction with the application
• App contributes to the RTE
• Leave behind “artifacts” in Jive content
• Flows into What Matters
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28. Activities
Pattern: Use the Activity Stream a.k.a. “What’s the man?”
Mick Jagger, “Miss you” (one of the greatest rock & roll songs ever)
• Posting a basic activity
• Notifications
• Actions
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29. Big Finish!
• Show how it all comes together!
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30. Section Summary
We learned:
• The importance of social context
• The basic patterns solved by using apps
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