Plugin Downloads : Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free) : Comments

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

aaron@jivesoftware.com — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT

Cool stuff guys!

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:04:08 GMT

Thanks for the feedback Aaron !

We've added some additional screenshots of the plugin in action on our website at Appfire.com.

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:38:37 GMT

A Note from Appfire:

We're excited to hear how the Appfire FlashCharts Plugin is being put to good use in your Clearspace community. Whether it's for reporting sales statistics, establishing slick dashboard widgets, or something we haven't even thought of yet ... your comments and feedback are welcome!

Cheers,

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:12:06 GMT

Hello Mat,

Looks like a tool we could use.

I installed the plugin on CSX 1.10.0. Tried (copy and paste) Syntax Examples #1 and #2 in a wiki document but did not have much luck as the charts were not displayed. Tried on both MSFT IE 7 and Firefox. Is it possible l might be missing a configuration step?

Thx,

Daniel.

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:45:10 GMT

I was able to install and check the plugin on 1.9.0. Works great!

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:22:23 GMT

Hi Daniel,

We'll be happy to try and alleviate any trouble you may be experiencing.

The first thing we should do is try to identify if it's an installation issue or a macro syntax issue.

Here's a few quick questions that will provide us with a little more info:

Would you be able to take a few screenshots of what your seeing, post them someplace and link to them from this page? We would like to evaluate the following:

The 'Edit' view of the 2 pages where you deployed your test macros
The 'Rendered' view of the 2 pages where you deployed your test macros.
Your current 'Clearspace Plugin Admin' page available by going to "Admin" > "System" > "Plugins".

After downloading the plugin from Jivespace, did you happen to rename the JAR file? (This would prevent the plugin from working properly.)
Are you seeing any exceptions within the Clearspace log file associated with FlashCharts?

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:34:29 GMT

Hi Ajay,

Thanks for the feedback !!

We'll update the documentation above to reflect Clearspace v1.9.0 compatibility.

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:58:48 GMT

Hello Mat,

Please refer to the following posting:

http://www.jivesoftware.com/community/docs/DOC-1972

Thanks,

Daniel.

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

dmccall@gene.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:13:58 GMT

I can't get it to work in 1.10.1. It doesn't even attempt to render the chart, instead it just publishes

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:54:49 GMT

Hi Daniel ("abakwaboy"),

Thanks for your excellent documentation.

We believe we've identified the issue you're experiencing.

We're working on a resolution as we speak and are planning to issue a v0.6 release shortly.

Stay tuned ...

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:13:37 GMT

Hi Dan ("dmccall"),

Thank for your feedback. We will be happy to help you troubleshoot.

When you have a moment, could you please provide us with some additional information about your installation?

Would you be able to take a few screenshots of what your seeing (including the URL path after the domain), post them, and link to those screenshots with some additional informaiton from this page? We would like to evaluate the following:

The 'Edit' view of the deployed test macro.
The 'Rendered' view of the deployed test macro.
Your current 'Clearspace Plugin Admin' page available by going to "Admin" > "System" > "Plugins".

After downloading the plugin from Jivespace, did you happen to rename the JAR file? (This would prevent the plugin from working properly.)
Are you seeing any exceptions within the Clearspace log file associated with FlashCharts?

(Note that "abakwaboy" posted an issue for us to look into within a separate wiki page.)

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:26:06 GMT

Hi Daniel ("abakwaboy"),

We have posted a new v0.6 release of the plugin above which should hopefully alleviate the issue you were experiencing.

Note that we have also updated our recommended installation steps.

Please let us know if this addresses your issue.

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:39:41 GMT

Hi Dan ("dmccall"),

Just a quick update that we've now downloaded, installed and tested the Appfire FlashCharts Plugin against Clearspace 1.10.1 (aka: 1.11) and did not run into any issues.

Note that we issued a new release v0.6 earlier today that addressed another reported issue, ... and at the same time we overhauled our installation recommendations (outlined above).

If you could, we recommend installing v0.6 using the newly outlined steps above.

If this does not address the issue you were seeing, just let us know. If you are able to provide us with the information we outlined for you in our last post, I'm sure we can find a resolution.

Cheers

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:22:55 GMT

Hello Mat,

I installed v 0.6 on CSX 1.10 and it worked.

Awesome tool!

Matt Tucker's comment about using an excel file as input or some other mechanism that business users are more familiar with would make it even more attractive.

Thanks,

Daniel.

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:25:30 GMT

Hi everybody,

We've received a ton of great feedback on our Appfire FlashCharts Plugin within the jivespace community and via email.

To help organize user feedback, we've started two new discussion threads.

Thanks again for the excellent response!!

Cheers,

-Mat

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Appfire Technologies, Inc.

Official Jive Software Integration Partner

Clearspace Plugin Development Specialists

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

dmccall@gene.com — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:41:54 GMT

I totally agree about the excel comment! In fact, Confluence already has a plugin kind of like this called Excel Plugin

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:14:53 GMT

Hello,

We recently upgraded to Clearspace 2.0. I was able to get the plugin to install using Method 1. However, when I try to use it in a document using example 1 above, I get a 'System Error, document could not be saved'.

Perhaps the plugin hasn't been tested yet with Clearspace 2.0?

Thanks,

Jade

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:40:57 GMT

Hi Jade,

Thank you for your comment.

We actually have a new Clearspace 2.0-compatible version of our Appfire FlashCharts Plugin currently in development.

Consider setting up an email notification on this page for yourself so that you're automatically alerted when we post new releases.

Thank you again for your interest in our plugin !!

Cheers,

-Mat

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Appfire Technologies, Inc.

Official Jive Software Integration Partner

Clearspace Plugin Development Specialists

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:23:23 GMT

Any news on 2.0 compatible availability - now July

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:58:56 GMT

Hi Graham,

Sorry for the late reply. We've been juggling a bunch of stuff this summer.

We're currently working with Jive engineers on the FlashCharts upgrade to Clearspace 2.x. It's taken our two teams about six/seven weeks to flush out the fact that there was a bug introduced in the 2.x versions of Clearspace that is specifically preventing our plugin from collecting and rendering data properly through the chart files.

One of Jive's engineers is currently working on the issue and is sending us updates about twice-a-week on their progress.

We're not yet sure on a timeline due to these issues which are currently out of our control .. but we're still very focused on getting this back out to the community as soon as possible.

More news soon ...

-Mat

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Appfire Technologies, Inc.

Official Jive Software Integration Partner

Clearspace Plugin Development Specialists

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:27:11 GMT

Good to know that it is not dead, but surprised that its taking this much time & effort to resolve.

Of course there is also 2.5 coming along shortly.

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:19:54 GMT

How's it working our guys - are we going to see the return of Appfire in 2.0/5

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:48:18 GMT

Here's a quick Appfire FlashCharts development update for everyone ...

Our engineers were able to jump over a major chart rendering hurdle in our local 2.0.5 instance this past week with the help of a couple core Clearspace developers (and a bunch of caffeine) ... however, when we tried it in 2.5 the same fix isn't doing the trick yet.

Our current focus is on Clearspace 2.5+ so there's still work to be done ... but we appear to be heading in the right direction.

More soon ...

-Mat

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Appfire Technologies, Inc.

Official Jive Software Integration Partner

Clearspace Plugin Development Specialists

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:38:53 GMT

... and it is now December - 2.5 has been out some months. Is this ever going to happen?

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:54:38 GMT

any news?

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:45:04 GMT

I've been able to embed Google Charts in Clearspace 2.5

RE: Appfire FlashCharts Plugin (Free)

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:54:36 GMT

Due to the volume of positive email we've received in support of the FlashCharts plugin for Jive Clearspace/SBS, we wanted to provide a general update for the community.

This plugin has been an exciting effort that our team has truly enjoyed. Soon after its introduction to the community, our team identified that the effort which would be required to regularly evolve the plugin's technology to keep pace with the rapid evolution of Jive's product architecture was not something that we would be able to adequately sustain as a free service.

With that said, we are open to the idea of working with a project sponsor who's motivated to fully fund the FlashCharts development effort as part of a traditional professional services and support engagement.

If you are interested in sponsoring the development/support of FlashCharts for deployment within your SBS community, please feel free to contact us anytime.

Cheers,

-Mat

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Appfire Technologies, Inc.

North America's leading collaboration software service provider

Jive Software Integration Partner

SBS Plugin Development Specialists