Posted by Niklas Heidloff | September 3, 2012
We've received the first entries for
the fourth OpenNTF
development contest. Our goal
is to produce videos and screenshots of them soon again and place them
on XPages.info/contest.
For the Connections category we offer
a shared image
for contest developers. If you want to access it, please contact me (niklas_heidloff
at de dot ibm dot com). For the developers who are using it already I've
given webinars describing the image and how to get started. Obviously I
offer this for other contest developers as well.
I've been asked by some people what
scenarios could be developed for the Connections category. In addition
to my sample
scenario I blogged about earlier,
here are some more ideas.
Extensions to Connections:
- Extension to the Connections search
box to search in NSFs
- iWidget(s) which integrate files stored
in existing NSFs in Connections communities
- iWidget(s) with the ability to create
help requests/tickets in NSFs
- Generic iWidget(s) providing moderators
the functionality to define lists of documents (custom fields, custom views)
on the fly (like XBean
Table)
- Generic iWidget(s) that create Notes
documents in certain databases (form and field names defined my moderator)
- iWidget(s) to display publically available
information about users in the profiles' tabs (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn,
Google searches, etc.)
- iWidget(s) to display Notes documents
of specific users from existing Notes applications
- iWidget(s) that integrate Notes/Domino
out of the box functionality, e.g. free time lookups
- iWidget(s) that integrate custom calendars
stored in Notes databases
- Links to custom (XPages) intranet
apps integrated in Connections (e.g. in Connections apps navigator or as
new tab)
Custom XPages apps leveraging Connections:
- Control to display members of certain
communities
- Extended control to display files
from certain communities (e.g. only folders, certain communities, certain
search criteria)
- Ability to create activities directly
from custom apps and show updates in XPages apps
- Use Notes documents as starting point
for discussions in Connections forums and link between them
- Custom app which leverages Ideation
Blog for new ideas and displays results in custom app