Hi Will,
The environment association looks quite good. btw, is it implemented as a new contentType
in the Supportal Clearspace instance ? Just curious. Actually, if so and acceptable, showcasing
that as the example/sample usage for implementing new ContentTypes would be great,
immensely helpful to see a working implementation and the backing code.
Actually it would be good to see how Cases are implemented as well. I am interested in seeing, if
it is a extended existing contentType with name-value properties or another new ContentType.
A sample of each would help the customizing customers.
Also, if you could expose just enough read-only information abou the JIRA cases, which are
associated to the cases would be good as well.
Best Regards,
-senthil
Thanks for the feedback!
We did implement the Environments as a new custom content type, and we have plans to explain in some detail how this was done in the near future (in a blog post here).
Since our 'cases' existed in 2.5.x, there was no custom content type functionality then, so it is extending Threads / Questions and using extended properties. It is a pretty developed customization, and I'll see what I can do about explaining some of our customization in a future blog post.
Lastly, we are working hard at exposing the JIRA issues via another custom content type, 'JIRA Issue' which actually can go back and forth between our JIRA instance, and the Supportal. This will also be blogged about when it is complete, but I don't expect it to be complete for a few months.
Thanks again,
Will
1) Can environments be used in other areas (i.e., discussions). When uses are answering questions in the forums, they also want to know what version the person asking the question is on. Otherwise, it is very have to answer the question.
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1) Can environments be used in other areas (i.e., discussions). When uses are answering questions in the forums, they also want to know what version the person asking the question is on. Otherwise, it is very have to answer the question.
At this point, environments can only be used in support cases that are filed in private support cases, but long term we may end up having something similar for public discussions as well.
The environment association looks quite good. btw, is it implemented as a new contentType
in the Supportal Clearspace instance ? Just curious. Actually, if so and acceptable, showcasing
that as the example/sample usage for implementing new ContentTypes would be great,
immensely helpful to see a working implementation and the backing code.
I just put up a new blog post about this feature and the answer is "yes," it is implemented as a custom content type! For fully functional example of the content type framework, see the links at the bottom of the post.
nice! I'm a big fan of the Supportal.