Integration/Content source

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Setting up a content source

Many parameters are straight forward

• Related solution
• Max cache age
• Is active

Unique NAME

This is the calling name of the interface, that must be provided accessing the content service.

Example for calling the view myview

  ... /cmsservice?q=myview& ...

Query command

Relevant commands include

• General records
  • list: List of records
  • show: Single record
• HTML formatted views
  • heat: Heatmaps
  • gant: Gant charts
  • xtab: Pivot tables
  • calm: Calendar

Query parameters

Parameters are provided without URL encoding

 QUERY_FIELD_1=TITEL&QUERY_OPERATOR_1=8&QUERY_VALUE_1=Hello&QUERY_SHOWFIELD=TITEL StatusID DEADLINE

Procedure for easy parameter setup

1. Build views in frontend.
2. Activate the link and copy the URL
3. ´Remove unneeded parameters
   • command
   • SagID
   • QUERY_NEW

Dynamic parameter

This specifies a parameter that will be set by the value provided in the v parameter.

Example: Using this interface

 Unique NAME: mylist
 Query command: list
 Dynamic parameter: QUERY_PageOffset

Making a call to

 .../cmsinterface?q=mylist&v=2

Will fetch a list of data and display page 2, because 2 is injected into QUERY_PageOffset.

Parameters and values are injected directly into the http request.

Note: Using the "show" command the variable will ALLWAYS get mapped to "DataID"

Using a content source

Calling the cmsinterface servlet will provide you with an overview on how to use it.

Example:

  https://www.acme.com/TempusServa/cmsinterface

The interface requires just the name of the source, but additional parameters can be provided.

Parameters

• q: Name of the interface (required)
  • This name must match "Unique NAME"
• f: Format of the result (optional)
  • Valid values: html json xml
• v: Parameter for dynamic values (optional)
  • The value will be substituted to the parameter in "Dynamic parameter"

Example:

  https://www.acme.com/TempusServa/cmsinterface?q=mysource&f=json

Troubleshooting

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Configuration caching

For performance reasons information about the content sources is kept cached.

Adding or changing sources will propegate automatically : You will need to clear the system cache to pick the changes.

Parameter encoding

Note that URL's copied from a browser address bar are often encoded in HTML format.

The content will not decode values and request strings, so all encoded strings will fail.