Currently we are using DNN to implement and manage our company websites. Therefore we own several websites and one 'head'-website. Each of the sites contains its own DNN installation. For creating news we are using the 2sxc module.
Now we have the following tasks: If a user creates new news in one of the websites, we want to export them automatically to
another installation of DNN (to the 'head'-website)
another system (self developed application)
So is there any opportunity, e.g. an API or another module to realize that?
Thank you very much for your answer in advance!
I would consider doing this another way.
Create a new installation or site in which you create and store all news items. Add an RSS feed or a webapi to this site, and create methods such that other sites can grab news items from this site.
Modify your other sites to use the webapi (or RSS feed) from the news source for their displays. This should be quite easy for the sites that use 2sxc. You'll just need to change the data source to get data from the webapi or RSS feed.
This will eliminate issues of duplicating data, etc.
If you want to reduce development, you could get a copy of DNN Sharp's API Endpoint module(https://www.dnnsharp.com/dnn/modules/custom-dnn-api-endpoint). They have pretty good documentation, and YouTube videos to walk you through the creating of endpoints.
2sxc has everything you need :)
Your best bet is probably the REST API to access the items (see https://docs.2sxc.org/how-to/webapi/webapis.html and https://2sxc.org/en/learn/rest-for-javascript). Just activate some permissions and you can get them from anywhere. Here's a basic recipe to configure the permissions: https://azing.org/2sxc/r/k0YbVYXO
You can also create queries (like to only give the the last 5) and set permissions on that, using https://azing.org/2sxc/r/BE0HbDwA.
This blog post may also help you: https://2sxc.org/en/blog/post/releasing-2sxc-8-10-public-rest-api-visual-query-and-webapi-shuffle-datasource
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Let me start with a bit of background: I'm helping a non-profit organization that would like to have a browser-based application that is backed by Salesforce, but has very specific requirements.
I see Salesforce has a REST API that we can call, so we can develop a standalone application to serve the web pages they want and use the REST API to call Salesforce when needed.
I'm wondering if there is a way to host a web application directly on Salesforce; this way we don't have to have a separate application server. Any recommendations or pointers to documentation/open source products is greatly appreciated.
Yes, you can create services that will allow your app to hit Salesforce
Depending on the type of application, yes you can host it on salesforce using the Salesforce Sites feature, also you can develop and host your app on Heroku which is owned by salesforce and can sync data to and from salesforce using Heroku Connect, or you can build and host it on another service like AWS and connect via the REST API. You just need to investigate and choose the option that best fits your use-case. One thing to be aware of is that there are API limits (the number of calls you can make to salesforce in a rolling 24hr period). Depending the the needs of the app be sure to see if those limits will be an issue. Because if the app makes constant calls to salesforce that could be an issue. But there are things you can do to get around that, like caching.
Yes, both Force.com Sites and Site.com features allow you to host webpages on the Force.com Platform. The markup is stored in Visualforce Pages and can use Apex to access records in the Database. I have migrated multiple websites (including our company's www.mkpartners.com) to Force.com using Force.com Sites.
One thing to keep in mind is that you are limited to 500,000 views per month and the rendering of a page with images that are also stored on the platform will incur a single view for the page and a single view for each image. If you already have a very popular website, I wouldn't migrate. If you're a small business or nonprofit, then it should be fine.
Another thing to keep in mind is that dynamic functionality based on records in the database will not work during maintenance windows. There is the ability to upload a static version of your website to be rendered during these windows though.
Our site runs DotNetNuke (DNN) and I am wondering whether there are any platforms that would carry out automation of social media postings from blog posts? I know there are the likes of Zapier, but I am uncertain as to whether these actually support DNN.
Ideally, I would like to have it so that as soon as a blog goes live on our site, we can have it automatically posted on our various social media channels & automated throughout the day.
We, of course, use Hootsuite, but it would be excellent if there was a method that plugged in with this somehow.
I've used the Ventrian News Articles Module with the web service dlvr.it. This allows you to automatically post to social media from pulling an RSS feed. Really you could use any module that will generate rss but this was just always my preference, especially since you can create custom fields and template the rss feed using tokens.
Most blogging platforms come with built-in support for RSS. You can configure Hootsuite to read your blog's RSS feed and then automatically share to social. Check out the Hootsuite documentation for more info: https://help.hootsuite.com/hc/en-us/articles/204585700-Add-pause-or-delete-an-RSS-feed
I am trying to develop a web application that can communicate with another web application. App1 is an app developed using Angular.js and Struts2. This apps sole purpose is to perform search queries on several databases and returning the information about the products for the user to view. App2, the current app I am developing, will be developed using Angular.js and Flask/Python. This app will be responsible for storing the products the user selects in a shopping cart and allowing the user to make a purchase.
I am stuck as to how to get the two applications to communicate(passing login information, selected items ids, etc.) with eachother.
I have tried passing information via a url redirect (http://www.example.com/?myVar=someData&...) but Angular is giving me a lot of trouble to try and get around that. Even if I can get this to work, I think it would be insecure as data the user shouldn't know will be exposed in the url.
My second thought would be to somehow access the session data from App1 in App2 but that could also lead to security issues.
My final thought would be to some how make a call to App1 that returns a json object that can be parsed in App2 but I am not entirely sure how to pass that information along.
How can I get the two applications to communicate with each other?
Thanks for your help
In my opinion this isn't really within the scope of AngularJS. However, I believe that the best, most accepted practice for communication between web applications in this day and age is RESTful Web Services.
It's not a small topic, but once you get the concept behind it you can use it in any programming language that supports web applications (Java which I'm assuming you're using because of struts has multiple REST libraries, I prefer Jersey but that's just me).
It's also an amazing way to use your Angular front end to talk with its own back end. The entire Angular $resource framework is built around the idea of using RESTful services.
Check out this link on Wikipedia for a brief synopsis of what makes a service RESTful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer#Applied_to_web_services
Now, that applies to most of what you asked. As far as login information is concerned, that's going to depend on your security implementation. A lot of times you can put information like that in the header of a web services request, and only accept requests that come from trusted servers, etc. but there's a good bit of stuff to understand there. It's an entirely separate topic.
Hopefully this helps you get started. Let me know if you'd like more information or pointers.
I'm developing a web site with Google App Engine, and I want to have a search feature for user submitted stuff. Since this project is just a toy and I don't control the server, I'd like to just use Google to handle search. However, since the content is stored in the database, I don't think Google can discover the dynamic urls. Unless maybe I create a page that links the last N submissions and hope it gets crawled frequently. Thoughts?
Absolutely. As long as the database is exposed in a web page which can be crawled, Google will crawl it (unless told not to).
The best way to make it all accessible is decent navigation between pages. However, lacking that, a site map page linked from the home page should suffice.
This is an excellent candidate for a sitemap.
You can generate the XML any way you want, and give it to Google. The best part is, it is a "private" XML file; no need to have ugly listings of dynamic URLs for users to see.
We want to add tracking statistics to a web application we are building but are pretty unsure of how to go about it. (i.e. clicks, pageviews, unique visits etc)
Does anyone have any articles on the best way to go about incorporating tracking data into an application ? i.e. javascript tracking or IIS etc ?
We want to add tracking in as a ASP.NET MVC module - but we are unsure as to the best way to actually get the data and essentially 'track' this information ?
If anyone could help out - much appreciated.
Edit: just to be clear, we want to do this in-house and present the stats to our users as an additional fee module?
You can turn on the logging for IIS and then use the SQL Server Report Server Pack for IIS. It comes with many canned reports for your sites stats and then you could take it from there with your own custom reports.
You could also just use log parser to get the stats into a SQL Server DB and then you could use SQL from their to analyse and roll your own app.
Either way, you could modularize this and sell it as an add-on to your customer base.
You could use Piwik, you just need PHP version 5.1.3 or greater and MySQL version 4.1 or greater. As they say in their website, "Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics."
They have a demo on the official website so you can see if it's what you're looking for.
Google analytics is a popular service. You just insert a bit of javascript on every page that contains your sites name and Google tracks the data and provides all the report on a handy web based dashboard.
It's not an ASP.net MVC module like what you mentioned, but it will certain track stats for you and will be a lot simpler to set up than trying to code or integrate anything yourselves.
I'd look at analytics to begin with and only branch out to something more complex if it doesn't meet your requirements.
klabranche provided a holistic answer in terms of using logs of web server. I think using web server log is a a great way to analyse data of your web application.
That being said, depend on your web application and the scope of your analytics, just relay on web server log is not a good way to.
As you may know, web log does not record users behaviors like clicking certain tabs which may not trigger a web server request. Obviously your web log has no idea whether users clicked that tab or not, this may hurt your analyse.
Another you need to know is browser cache, this may create another black hole in your data.
RECAP
If you want to do a holistic analytics, you need to use two approaches, one is JavaScrip tag, another one is web log. Since both of them have shortages, combining them together will give you a complete picture.
Hope this helps