vishal_trivedi - Tuesday, October 26, 2010 12:25 AM:
I am using ARAS 9.2 and I want to access my blog from ARAS.
How can I do that?
PeterSchroer - Tuesday, October 26, 2010 8:09 AM:
Does your blog have an RSS feed? I use an Innovator VB Server Method to request an RSS feed from the Aras Blogs, then I style the resulting XML into a useful format. Seems to work pretty well. Our blogging software is Community Server by Telligent, but I can imagine this would work with any blogging application. After you have the XML result, then you can decide to display this as a Federated Item inside Innovator. In our case, MyInnovator.com is the content manager behind the Aras web site, so I use Innovator in the middle to retrieve data using RSS from the Blogging application, and then the XML is re-styled inside Innovator and then displayed on the Aras web site.
--Peter
vishal_trivedi - Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:14 AM:
Thank you for your Reply,
But Peter can you explain it broadly I am not getting what you want to say exactly.
So if possible please give me the steps to do that.
-- Vishal
PeterSchroer - Saturday, October 30, 2010 8:32 PM:
Hi Vishal,
Give me some more details about what you want to do. If you want to have a page (frame) within Aras Innovator and then put the url to your blog in the frame, that is quite easy. If you want only to get the text from your blog, and display it using Aras Innovator styles, then you'll need to send a XMLHTTP message to read the RSS feed from the blog, this will get you just the blog text which you can render in Innovator grids and forms.
Might also be interesting to use Aras Innovator to author the blog posts, and then push these to the blog site. I'm interested in using Innovator as a collaboration engine, with Wiki, Forum and Blog views of the collaboration data.
Peter
vishal_trivedi - Sunday, October 31, 2010 5:08 AM:
Hi Peter,
I am working on my client's requirement where he want somthing like this:-->
1) They will have a discussion forum where all the employees of the firm can discuss on multiple topics.
2) They want to embed that with the ARAS.
My Questions:-->
1) What should I suggest them as free page of forum which can easily be embed with ARAS.
2) What is the method to do such thing?
Vishal
PeterSchroer - Tuesday, November 2, 2010 12:46 PM:
My first answer.... if the customer does not have Forum software already today, then use Innovator. Simple Data model - ForumEntry which has a text property, author name and date, and a property for which Forum (if you allow multiple discussion threads). Under ForumEntry, have a relationship (to null) named ForumComment (also with text prperty, author, and date). Now you have enough data model to support threaded discussions. If you want deep threading model (Comments on Comments indented further) you can add another relationship under the ForumComment. ANother way to do this would be just a single ItemType ForumEntry, with a property for ParentPost (item property). If ParentPost is null, then this is the start of a thread. All subsequent Comments would have the ParentPost id value set, creating a chain.
Now you create a nice Web UI outside of Aras Innovator that reads/writes to this data model using xmlhttp object calls. If the customer has no prepference, I recommend SilverLight. Great tool for developing web user interfaces connected to Web Services. I have sample code for how to have a Silverlight application access Aras Innovator through web services.
The other approach, is to have a 3rd party Forum software product (we use CommunityServer, but it has since been discontinued). I like what I read about www.Sueetie.com this Forum software looks highly capable. Nearly all Forum software will include a RSS feed, and you can use the RSS feed to pull data into Aras Innovator.
My recommendation - build the Forum datamodel in Innovator and create a nice external Web UI with AJAX or Silverlight or Flash. Lots of people would like to share this application with you.
