Posted by Niklas Heidloff | October 30, 2012
The fourth OpenNTF
development contest sponsored
by hedersoft
is still going on. Contribute your open source project between now and
December 2nd and have a chance to win one of five $1000 prizes.
So far we've received nine entries that
we have listed on XPages.info
with screenshots and videos. All of these entries belong to the first category
of the contest where we ask developers to contribute any projects related
to XPages.
In the second category we ask people
to provide open source projects that leverage both XPages and IBM Connections.
In this category we have not received any submissions yet. So at this point
there is a good chance to win $1000.
Building projects for the second category
doesn't have to be difficult and time consuming. Since this is the first
contest related to XPages and IBM Connections, contributions don't have
to be that sophisticated. In the easiest case widgets could be built, for
example, that simply display data from Notes databases.
In order to avoid setting up the complete
infrastructure we provide an image
with Connections and XPages pre-installed. The image comes also with a
generic
XPages iWidget so that XPages
can be added to communities by moderators without having to deploy new
widgets via command line tools. In summary with this image and the generic
widget XPages can be added to Connections purely by using Domino Designer
and the Connections user web interface. As an example this 'news'
widget uses the image and the
generic widget.
If you want to use the image, please
contact niklas_heidloff@de.ibm.com.
Below is a list of potential contributions.
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 in the Bazaar)
- 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