The Social Business Toolkit – Getting Started

By schmhen in Allgemein

In my first post about the SBT I wrote about what it is and why you should use it. Today I am going to explain what you need to do in order to use the SBT in your projects. This little tutorial is based on IBM Domino, IBM Domino Designer (DDE) and Xpages.

So, first of all you need to download the SBT. Since it is an OpenNTF project it is quite obvious how to obtain it. Once you’ve downloaded it you can extract the zip File in an appropriate place on your disk. Have a look at the contents. You’ll find the following folder structure (based on sbtsdk-1.0.0.20140121-0336): Continue reading

XPages Database Open Dialog v2.0

By schmhen in Allgemein

I assume you’re all aware of the Database Open Dialog project on OpenNTF, right? The previous version has been around for 2.5 years now and has been downloaded almost 600 times!

Now say hi to version 2.0. It was completely redesigned using jQuery and Bootstrap 3. Some minor issues have been fixed and functionality was added to better configure and use the dialog. So all of you already using the previous version: Go ahead and test version 2.0. All others: Give the dialog a try, it won’t disappoint you and may be very helpful in your projects.

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The Social Business Toolkit (SBT)

By schmhen in Allgemein

SBT

This is the first post of a series that introduces the Social Business Toolkit (SBT) and provides examples of how to use it and how to ship around pitfalls. There are many valuable resource out there dealing with the SBT. This series is based on my experiences with the Toolkit.

So, what is the SBT? Short answer: A service wrapper that provides an easy to use API to call Web2.0 services. The main focus is on IBM Connections and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business (SC4SB), but it also provides functionality to access other non-IBM services like twitter, facebook or dropbox. Continue reading

Don’t reinvent the wheel! AD206

By schmhen in Allgemein

Are you somebody who uses open sourced code in your applications in order to reduce development times and costs? Or are you using code that you or somebody else in your company has implemented before to achieve your goals more quickly and cost efficient? Either way, you are on the right track!

One thing is to re-use code. The other thing is to use services that applications provide. An example is SAP that offers BAPI modules which can be called to create any kind of SAP objects like Purchase Orders (PO). So you could write a workflow application that allows to enter PO related data, send it through an approval process and send it to SAP to finalize the purchase process. Continue reading