Blog Posts From Jive Developer Blog Tagged With featured_cs_plugin

Give Users Advanced Access to Clearspace via Email (Beta)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:18:34 GMT

Today, Aaron Johnson released a beta version of the Advanced Email Plugin for Clearspace.

The Advanced Email plugin gives your users the ability to comment on blog posts, documents and discussion threads and to create discussion threads, documents and blog posts, all via email.

Please keep in mind that this is a beta plugin, so please read the installation instructions and caveats carefully.

You can get all of the details about the Advanced Email Plugin for Clearspace and download other cool Clearspace plugins on Jivespace.

Want to Create Fancy Charts in Clearspace?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:56:33 GMT

Appfire has just released the FlashCharts Plugin for Clearspace. The Appfire FlashCharts Plugin introduces "data visualization" to Clearspace through stunning XML-based Flash charts and graphs. 20 different flavors of animated charts are individually controlled through 'macro parameters' and a set of associated 'xml data structures' required by each chart type.

You can get all of the details about the FlashCharts plugin and download other cool Clearspace plugins on Jivespace.

Translate Your Clearspace Content into Other Languages!

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:47:42 GMT

Do you have employees or customers who working in various locations around the world?

The Translations macro can help you easily translate documents into other languages only as the need arises. It will insert several flags into the document. When you click on one of the flags, a new window will open with the translated version of the current page.

Right now, it is using Google as the translation engine, and is fixed at having English as the original language. However, the source code is available if you want to tweak it to meet your specific needs (just don't forget to contribute back any enhancements)!

If you want to take a peek at the code to see how the translations macro was constructed, you can get the source from svn.

Easy Way to Embed Presentations or Other Media in Clearspace

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:59:14 GMT

If you are looking for an easy way to display slide shows in Clearspace, we have a SlideShare Macro plugin that lets anyone display a slide show presentation in documents, blog posts, and threads.

You can use this plugin to display SlideShare presentations, but it also provides a simple example code to illustrate how you can use a plugin to display media from other online sources in Clearspace as embedded content. You can learn more about the plugin or just download the code from svn.

A quick example:

Interested in Embedding Videos in Clearspace?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:39:04 GMT

If you want to easily embed videos in your Clearspace blog posts, documents, and discussions, we have two plugins that might be useful.

The YouTube macro lets you embed videos from YouTube, which is great for smaller videos. For longer videos (more than the 10 minute YouTube limit), we have a blip.tv plugin.

All of the videos on Jivespace use the blip.tv plugin. Here's an example in action:

Download or learn more about these plugins from Jivespace or visit our svn server to download the source and see how we did it!

If you are interested in writing your own plugin or macro for Clearspace, you can find plenty of information in our documentation space.

Want a task list in Clearspace? Try the TaskList Macro!

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:17:16 GMT

At Jive, we use our internal instance of Clearspace for everything, we call it Brewspace (hey, we're in Portland with a brew pub on every corner!) We keep all of our planning documents, weekly status updates, and more in Brewspace. We use the TaskList macro to track completion of tasks.

The TaskList macro gives authors the ability to generate and track a simple list of tasks. Each line inside the macro body is parsed as a separate task. Each task will display with a graphic button for marking the task complete. When this happens, the userid is also recorded and displayed.

The TaskListMacro applies authorization policies based on the surrounding context. In simpler terms, if you are an author for the piece of content, you can also edit the tasks.

Download or learn more about the TaskList Macro from Jivespace or visit our svn server to download the source and see how we did it!

If you are interested in writing your own plugin or macro for Clearspace, you can find plenty of information in our documentation space.

Want to be more productive with Clearspace? Try Clearfox!

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:54:35 GMT

Having problems keeping up with all of the activity in your Clearspace community? You can always use the many RSS feeds to keep up with content, but if you are looking for another option, you should take a look at Clearfox.

The Clearfox plugin installs a sidebar in your Firefox browser that keeps you up to date with the latest and greatest content in your Clearspace community. It is a Clearspace plugin and a Firefox extension all wrapped into one nice package.

If you want more details about how Aaron Johnson built Clearfox, he has posted all of the gory details as a two-part series on his blog: Creating a Firefox Sidebar for Clearspace: Part I and Part II

Download the plugin or learn more about Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox.

If you are interested in writing your own plugin or macro for Clearspace, you can find plenty of information in our documentation space.

Want to Display Jira Issues from within a Clearspace Document?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:06:35 GMT

Have you ever wanted to pull a list of issues from JIRA into a document? Tim Colson, the winner of our first plugin contest, has developed an awesome JiraIssues Macro that makes it easy to interact with JIRA issues from within Clearspace using a slick Flex interface!

Because the input of the macro is an XML feed URL, you can customize it to show almost any cut of the data from Jira (only open issues on a specific project owned by a certain owner, etc.) The interface gives you the flexibility to filter, show/hide fields, and interact with the data in a variety of ways.

Download the plugin or learn more about the JiraIssues Macro Plugin with Flex.

If you are interested in writing your own plugin or macro for Clearspace, you can find plenty of information in our documentation space.