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QuickShare Plugin

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:29:53 GMT

Summary

The QuickShare plugin is a wrapper plugin for multiple extensions to JiveSBS that enable fast content contribution. More to come (hopefully).

QuickTemplatesWidget - A widget that works in conjunction with social-tags to allow customer-enabled template driven content creation. Add/Remove your desired user-defined "template" tag to add/remove templates from a given container. Single-click a template from the Widget to start a Document Draft in your current container (where the Widget is placed)! Configuration options exist to copy Tags, Categories, and Content from template Document.

Requirements

Jive SBS 4.x and above

Installation

Plugin install through Admin Console.

Next Features

The following are a list of features I know I want to put into the plugin. If interested, please suggest features and demands, but please note that this is a less than 5% of my time effort, so probably wont have much to deliver above my "Next Features" for a while.

QuickTemplatesWidget
1. Copy Categories Feature to Work.
2. Explicitly deal with Embedded Images / Configuration to Copy/Strip from Template (right now, just avoid)
3. PersonalizedHomePage - Select Container at Runtime for Document Creation
  1. Temporary workaround, create in "Your Documents" then move!
4. DWR Population of Template Search Results to prevent unnecessary searches when Widget is "minimize
5. Cleaner UI, since I'm not a UI guy this is always last.
Fly-By-Tagging
1. Bring "Add-Tag" feature into plugin, re-map some of the concepts from this thread
2. Create "Remove-Tag" feature, need to determine if this should be restricted more than "Add-Tag"

Screenshots

QuickTemplatesWidget - Personalized Homepage, Space/Community, Social Group, Project

Minimized

Maximized

Widget Configuration

Copyright and License

Copyright 2009 Ryan Rutan under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Related Containers

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:23:59 GMT

Summary

Have you ever wished there was an easy way to relate spaces to groups and vice versa? The related containers plugin makes this possible!

Some customers have been doing this by adding HTML or Formatted Text Widgets to their group or space's overview page, but this limits you to a static view and can lead to an inconsistent user experience (different people accomplish the same task different ways). The Related Containers plugin seeks to avoid those inconsistencies and provides an easy way to link containers while adding a bit of dynamic information about the activity within those containers.

Screenshots

Where do I get the ID for my Group or Space?

The widgets take in a comma-delimited list of IDs in order to determine which related container(s) should be displayed. To obtain this ID, the simplest thing to do is to navigate to the space or group that you want to include and hover your mouse over the link to start a new discussion. When you hover over the link, the bottom of the browser should show you the ID. Look for "container=<number>" in the ouput. The value for <number> is what you will place in the widget.

In the example below, you'd use a value of 2003.

Support

This is not an official, Jive supported plugin, so please do not contact Jive for any issues you experience with the plugin. If you experience issues with this plugin, please leave me a comment on this page or message me on Twitter at @austrum.

Freemarker Template Debugger Plugin for assisting with Jive SBS 3.X Customization

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:56:15 GMT

The SnsFtlDebugger Plugin assists you in customizing Jive SBS. It can help you find out which Freemarker Templates were used to render individual Jive SBS pages. It can also help you locate a template file that you want to edit and describe where the template originated from (theme, plugin, or system file).

Features

Helps you determine which templates were loaded for an individual Jive SBS page
Helps you find out where template files originated from, so you know which ftl files to edit or override
Provides a function for reseting the Clearspace template cache. There are situations where jive.devMode=true is not enough to ensure that your new template changes are immediately picked up by Clearspace.

How To Use

Download the plugin jar and install it in your development instance of Clearspace via your admin console. Restart your development instance.
Go to jiveUrl/snsftldebugger.jspa to access the tool. The main page includes instructions on how to view the templates that are used by an individual Clearspace page.

Notes

Previous versions of this plugin for Clearspace 2.5 required you to visit jiveUrl/ftldebugger.jspa to use the tool
As of 10/27/09, the distributed version is compiled against java 1.6

Essential Plugin 2.5.x

communities@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:48:48 GMT

This is the 2.5.x version of the Essential Plugin.

Note: This 2.5.x plugin is not an Official Jive Software sponsored plugin, so please don’t ping support about it. I am more than happy to make sure fix issues that you see, so just leave me a comment and I’ll be more than happy to work on it.

Features

OnlineMembersWidget - Shows all users online.
EnhancedSubSpaceWidget - Shows the # of items in each container next to the space heiarchy.
FindPeopleWidget - Does a direct search to just people.
BorderlessWidget - Self-explanitory.
EnhancedBlogWidget - Does an abbreviation of blogs (first 200 chars) with read more and pulls images from the blog to identify them better with a failover to the users avatar.
WatchTagsWidget - Specify as many tags that you want to see.
MyProfileWidget - Shows your profile, your status, your work, etc.
PickYourBlogWidget - Specify the exact blog to show.

Please see the following for a supported 3.0.x version:

Essential Plugin 3.0.x

communities@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:07:03 GMT

See attached, build 71 released 10-7-2009

If you are a supported customer, please file any bugs through your support space.

If you are a registered user, please ask questions in our open forum.

Included in this release:

Widget Name	What it does	How is it configurable?
OnlineMembersWidget	Shows everyone that is online.	Number of Results
Borderless Widget	HTML Widget with no borders	-
BlogSummaries	Does an abbreviation of blogs (first 200 chars) with read more and pulls images from the blog to identify them	Number of Results
WatchTagsWidget	Specify as many tags that you want to see.	tags, number of results, visibility map
MyProfileWidget	Shows your profile, your status, your work, etc. Along with your general profile information.	number of results
PickYourBlog	Enables users to supply specific URL's to blogs to include.	URLs
OpenQuestions	Displays a list of all open questions for a particular container or user.	Number of results

Known Issues: Due to a core bug in earlier versions of 3.0.x we do not recommend using the Enhanced Blog Widget for communities with 20+ authors on a blog unless you are running 3.0.7 or greater.

Widgets not included in this release

EnhancedSubSpaceWidget - Shows the # of items in each container next to the space hierarchy.
FindPeopleWidget - Does a direct search to just people.

Advanced Email Plugin

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:52:51 GMT

Summary

The Advanced Email plugin gives you the ability to comment on blog posts, documents, reply to discussion thread, set your status and create discussion threads, documents, blog posts and tasks, all via email. By bringing the entire discussion to your desktop or mobile inbox you can participate in a manner both familiar and convenient, regardless of location or device.

End Users: once the plugin has been installed and configured appropriately (read the directions below before installing), you'll see an item added to the Your Stuff Menu called Mailing Lists. Clicking on this link will take you to a page that shows you all the spaces, projects, groups and blogs that you're either following or watching. You'll see a list of email addresses associated with each of those places: you can click on an email address if you want to test out the functionality. Type in a subject, add some text to the body of your email and click send. You should see the email show up as a discussion, document, blog post or task within a couple minutes. Publishing via email is usually necessary when you don't have an internet connection, so if you'll probably want to add any of the email addresses that you think you'll use on a regular basis to your address book.

Administrators: installing the plugin via the admin console is the easy part; the plugin does require some additional work from you and potentially some cooperation from your IT department or from your hosting provider. Read the installation instructions below for more information.

Screenshots

Coming soon!

Requirements

Clearspace 2.0.x, Clearspace 2.5.x or Jive SBS 3.0.x

Download

Download the plugin using the sidebar on the right.

Installation

IMPORTANT: This plugin requires that you have either a) deployed Clearspace to a server where the DNS A record of the server doesn't have a corresponding MX record or b) deployed Clearspace to a server where the DNS A record of the server does have a corresponding MX record and so you've created a separate DNS A record specifically for this email functionality. Additionally, it requires that you open inbound connections to port 25 and then use iptables to forward inbound requests on port 25 to port 2500 (or another port that is not a priveleged port). Here are some example configurations:
1. Clearspace deployed to jivesoftware.com/community. Because the DNS A record for 'jivesoftware.com' already has a corresponding MX record that handles mail for mail for the employees of jivesoftware.com, you'll need to create a separate DNS A record such as 'community.jivesoftware.com' which points to the same IP address as the server that Clearspace is deployed on and then (optionally) create an MX record that points to the A record 'community.jivesoftware.com'. If you don't create an MX record, email transfer agents use the A record as a fall back (this is sometimes called an implicit MX record).
2. Clearspace deployed to community.jivesoftware.com. It's unlikely that an MX record exists for the DNS A record community.jivesoftware.com so you most likely don't have to add or configure any DNS records. Mail transfer agents will first attempt to look up an MX record for community.jivesoftware.com, if they don't find one then they'll use the 'implicit' or 'fallback' A record.
As mentioned above, you'll need to make sure that Clearspace is able to receive mail on port 25 on the server it's deployed on. Ports 1024 and below are considered priveleged ports on Unix systems and so you'd have to run Clearspace as root if you wanted to bind to port 25, which isn't recommended. Instead, the plugin will by default attempt to bind to port 2500, which means you'll want to configure inbound requests on port 25 to forward to port 2500 using iptables. Here is a sample iptables command to forward requests on port 25 to port 2500:

> iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 25 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 2500
> /sbin/iptables-save

It's also possible to have your existing mail servers forward mail to Clearspace.

Qmail: Create a file under /var/qmail/control named smtproutes and with the content: domain.com:[IP MACHINE]:PORT where IP MACHINE would be something like 127.0.0.1 and port would be 2500. and then restart Qmail.
Sendmail: 1. Add your domain to access file: DOMAIN.COM RELAY 2. Add a mailertable in mailertable file: DOMAIN.COM smtp:[IP]:PORT 3. Rehash the files: makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable < /etc/mail/mailertable
Exchange / IIS: 1.) Modify the Default Recipient Policy by adding your subdomain (i.e. community.jivesoftware.com) as a new non-primary address. Ensure that "This Exchange Organization is responsible for all mail delivery to this address." is unchecked for the new address. a. If prompted to change all address, choose no. 2.) Create a new SMTP Connector choosing "Forward all mail through this connector to the following smart hosts, providing the IP address of your SubEtha List Server as the address (i.e. 192.168.1.100) a. Add your local SMTP Virtual Server as a bridgehead server b. Select the Address Space tab and add a new SMTP address of your subdomain (community.jivesoftware.com). You can leave the cost at 1 and ensure that "Allow messages to be relayed to these domains" is checked.

Build and deploy the plugin.
Go to the Clearspace Admin Console and create the following system properties:
- plugins.advancedemail.host: the DNS name of the server this plugin will run on. The value of this property should match the DNS A record that you configured in step one above.
- plugins.advancedemail.port: the port number that this plugin will bind to. By default the plugin will attempt to bind to port 2500.
- plugins.advancedemail.maxconnections: the maximum number of connections that the email server will allow. By default the plugin will accept up to 1000 connections.
- plugins.advancedemail.addressprefix: set this to jive in SBS 3.x only. Do not set this property if you are using the plugin in Clearspace.

plugins.advancedemail.port: the port number that this plugin will bind to. By default the plugin will attempt to bind to port 2500.
plugins.advancedemail.maxconnections: the maximum number of connections that the email server will allow. By default the plugin will accept up to 1000 connections.

Once you've completed the above steps, you're ready to test out the email publishing functionality. Open a browser window and go to your Clearspace instance. Click on 'Your Stuff' and then on 'Mailing Lists'. Create an email publishing alias for a space / community or a blog. Click on the resulting email link: your email client should open. Type a subject and a body, optionally add an attachment and then click send. After a few moments (depending on the speed of your network), you should see the document, discussion thread or blog post created in your Clearspace system.

How To Build

The Ant build.xml file at the root of the plugin includes a build.plugins target you can use to compile the code and package it into a JAR file. There's also a deploy.plugins target that copies the JAR into the <jiveHome>/plugins directory that accompanies your Clearspace distribution. Paths into your test Clearspace distribution assume that this plugin project is in the standalone Clearspace distribution at: <root>/plugins/plugins/helloworld.

Be sure to update the targets if you're testing another way, such as with the Clearspace WAR distribution.

Be sure to read the notes below about dependencies. The JAR files you'll need are included as part of Clearspace.

FAQ

Q: Why can't you use an existing email server like the 'reply via email' feature already in Clearspace?
- A: The existing 'reply via email' feature could be extended to other content types like documents and blog posts, but it would break down when you tried to create content. Instead of creating a single account, this plugin acts as an email server and a like an HTTP filter. It looks at the sender email address and the recipient email address and confirms that a) the sender exists as a user in Clearspace and that b) the recipient is a named alias (much like an HTTP resource) and that c) the named alias was created specifically by the recipient. If any of the aforementioned conditions are false, the email is dropped.
Q: Will this plugin allow spammers to relay?
- A: No, the plugin only receives email, it doesn't send email. If you have an existing email server (like sendmail) installed on the same machine as Clearspace, you'll probably want to configure it to bind to another port and then configure Clearspace to send email on that new port.

If you'd rather deploy the plugin manually, you can do that in one of two ways:

Just copy the plugin JAR file into the <jiveHome>/plugins directory. Your running Clearspace instance will deploy it automatically.
Open the admin console and navigate to System > Settings > Plugins, then browse for your plugin JAR file.

Copyright and License

Copyright 2009 Jive Software Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

What does the Video Plug-in do?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:45:02 GMT

can someone explain what the Video Plug-in does in

addition to functionality available to do in 3.0?

Thank you,

Noreen

My Plugins

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:40:30 GMT

This is the old version of the Essential plugin, please see http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/docs/DOC-7343 for an updated release.

Delicious

aaron@jivesoftware.com — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:37:14 GMT

The Delicious plugin gives your users the ability to have their Delicious bookmarks pushed into Jive SBS: simply add your Delicious username, click save and the system will automatically copy new bookmarks in Delicious to Jive SBS.

History

07/25/2009 - fixed an issue with bookmarks that don't have a description / summary causing a NPE exception
06/05/2009 - initial upload

Use Cases

You have an account in Jive SBS and a Delicious account and you'd like to have your Delicious links mirrored into Jive SBS for other users to see.

Installation

Like all Jive SBS plugins, you can install Delicious through the Admin console. Open the admin console and navigate to System > Plugins, then click Add Plugin and browse for your plugin JAR file.

Usage

If you want to use it, click on 'Your Stuff' in the user bar and then click on 'Delicious'. Enter your Delicious username, optionally choose to limit the bookmarks that you want to show up in Jive SBS using the include and exclude tags and then click the 'update account ' button. After a maximum of 10 minutes (and assuming that you have bookmarks in Delicious), you should see bookmarks in your profile.

Limitations

Only retrieves the first 15 bookmarks from your Delicious account, will not synchronize all your bookmarks, just the recent ones.
Only polls every 10 minutes, if you post more than 15 bookmarks on Delicious in 10 minutes, Jive SBS may not be able to retreive all the bookmarks.

RegEx-Filtering Tag Group Widget

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:33:21 GMT

A simple widget that can filter the Tag Groups shown for a space using RegEx:

We use this to break up large numbers of Tag Groups into logical groups.