This video covers creating a new workflow action for use in the visual workflow modeller. This sample leverages the integration to an external system to pull data into the workflow system to make decisions in business processes based on information held in ShareDo and in your external systems. Key moments 00:00 Recap and overview of demo scenario02:...

This video explores a typical integration scenario - pulling data from external systems into ShareDo that can be surfaced in the UI via custom portal widgets....

In this video, we look at some of the common issues encountered when attempting direct integration from the UI.  Key moments 00:00 Overview of common issues 00:50 Create a custom widget in ShareDo 03:00 Get the custom widget to call the custom API 05:17 Configuring the ShareDo Content security policy to allow calls 05:53 Next error message: CORS 06:...

We're pleased to announce the next point release of sharedo - version 7.2 - is in general availability as of this morning, 3rd November 2022. This release includes 32 new or enhanced features and 50 assorted defect and usability fixes. 7.2 also incorporates a roll up of new features and defects shipped in 7.1.1 and 7.1.2. New feature and enhancement...

We're pleased to announce the next patch release of sharedo - version 7.5.2 - is in general availability as of this afternoon, 19th July 2023 Focussing on defect fixes and small usability improvements, this release consists of 12 priority fixes along with 11 small quality of life features to enhance usability and configuration efficiency. Feature an...

In this video, we finish up the series by consuming the integration service via the proxy from a custom workflow action.  Key moments 00:00 Overview00:52 Recap01:54 Integrating into Visual Workflow03:15 Create workflow step in the IDE09:08 Designer for the step14:00 Code generation template19:48 Checklist & create a workflow step23:34 Triggering...

We're pleased to announce the next patch release of sharedo - version 7.2.1 - is in general availability as of this afternoon, 18th November 2022. This release is a small defect fix package over the last minor release (7.2.0). It resolves 19 issues across a range of services and introduces 5 small new features. New features and enhancements for 7.2....

In this video we flip the integration scenario around from ShareDo calling external systems, to external apps calling into ShareDo. We build out a typical service type application which will ingest multiple work items into ShareDo and we cover OAuth and how to obtain tokens that will allow your external app to call the ShareDo APIs....

In this video, we take a brief tour of the linked service system and proxy by registering and using some of the GitHub APIs.  Key Moments 00:00 Overview of part 2 of 600:37 A demo of integrating ShareDo with GitHub01:22 Service providers we support01:49 Adding Authorisation code grant to integrate with GitHub04:16 Token management section of the Add...

We're pleased to announce the next point release of sharedo - version 7.5 - is in general availability as of this morning, 1st June 2023. This release includes 51 new or enhanced features and 91 assorted defect and usability fixes. 7.5 also incorporates a roll up of new features and defects shipped in all patch releases since 7.4.0. Feature and enha...

Now we understand how workflows work and their asynchronous nature, we look at the visual designer, allowing you to create complex business processes quickly and easily. This will also set the scene for looking at how we extend the workflow visual canvas with custom actions in the integrations video....

We're pleased to announce the next point release of sharedo - version 7.4 - is in general availability as of this morning, 20th March 2023. This release includes 21 new or enhanced features and 60 assorted defect and usability fixes. 7.4 also incorporates a roll up of new features and defects shipped in all patch releases since 7.3.0. Feature and en...

Overview There are several integration scenarios in sharedo where you will want to make calls to an external API. These calls could be from custom UI components (widgets/blades etc) or from the server using custom workflow actions or execution engine scripts. There are a variety of ways to achieve this, including calling directly using XMLHttpReques...

In this video, we explore a simple, yet common, integration scenario where sharedo needs to call a custom API from the user interface and workflow. The detail is covered in the 3 videos that follow.  Key Moments 00:00 Overview of part 300:20 Scenario setup00:58 Controllers01:13 Transaction controller02:38 Authentication mechanism05:23 Looking at it ...

Overview We’re pleased to announce the next patch release of sharedo – version 7.1.2 – is in general availability as of this morning, 6th September 2022. This release is a minor increment on the 7.1.0 release in August with several enhancements and defect fixes. The most notable enhancement in 7.1.2 is with regard to addressing the deprecation notic...

Moving away now from the user interface, we look at how workflows work in ShareDo by starting with low-level process scripts and building out a simple multi-step workflow that represents a simple business process....

We're pleased to announce the next point release of sharedo - version 7.3 - is in general availability as of this evening, 12th January 2022. This release includes 21 new or enhanced features and 60 assorted defect and usability fixes. 7.3 also incorporates a roll up of new features and defects shipped in all patch releases since 7.2.0. Feature and ...

Overview We’re pleased to announce the next point release of sharedo – version 7.1.0 – is in general availability as of this morning, 16th August 2022. This release is a minor increment on the 7.0.0 release in July with several enhancements and defect fixes. The most notable new feature in 7.1 is the formal release of the visual workflow modeller, w...

In this video, we explore the common integration patterns and potential issues when consuming upstream API services from both the ShareDo user interface and server-side workflows. Key moments 00:00 Overview of integration patterns 6-part videos01:18 Introduction to External API - Common problems02:10 Content Security Policy03:13 CORS04:47 Possible c...

This video explores other app to ShareDo integrations, specifically integrating with existing web apps to have them pull data from ShareDo , plus how you can use ShareDo identity services to sign in to your apps for single sign-on (including single-page apps/mobile apps etc)....

We're pleased to announce the next patch release of sharedo - version 7.4.1 - is in general availability as of this morning, 15th May 2023. This release is a stability/patch release specifically for the event engine. Event engine stability enhancements This patch purely focuses on improving stability of the event/execution engine in some rare edge c...

In this video, we take the new portal widget we created in the previous section and build in designer support for it, allowing the modellers of ShareDo to use your widget in portals and configure its behaviour and purpose. This allows you to create one widget that can be reused and reconfigured to produce different results.    ...

We're pleased to announce the next patch release of sharedo - version 7.5.1 - is in general availability as of this afternoon, 26th June 2023.  Focussing on defect fixes and small usability improvements, this release consists of 26 priority fixes along with 15 small quality of life features to enhance usability and configuration efficiency. Feature ...

We're pleased to announce the next patch release of sharedo - version 7.3.1 - is in general availability as of this morning, 20th February 2022. This release includes 11 small feature enhancements and resolutions to 14 assorted defects and usability issues. Feature enhancement highlights for 7.3.1 A few highlights of the enhancements in this release...

Overview. Release v7.0.1 has today been made generally available (GA). This is a patch release aimed at resolving a number of reported issues and some incremental feature improvements since v7.0.0. Enhancement highlights. Sharedo advanced search scopes - now allows configurator to rename the input titles. Document assembly - document tag refresh is ...

Overview We’re pleased to announce the next patch release of sharedo – version 7.1.3 – is in general availability as of this afternoon, 27th September 2022. This release is a small defect fix package over the last minor release (7.1.2). It resolves 13, mostly edge case, issues across a range of services. Defect highlights. Creating an organisation v...

This sample demonstrates using the time API to record time against a work item in Sharedo. It shows how to resolve the data capture required to successfully post time, display this to the user to complete, and then use the time API to then submit time. Topics covered; ASP.NET Core web app authenticating via Sharedo and auth code flow Using access an...

Moving on from widgets, in this video we look at how to scaffold and build a new UI blade and add it to menus so it can be opened. Whereas widgets are typically used to show data, blades are usually used to edit or otherwise manipulate it. You can override the default width of a blade you want to open by specifying bladeWidth: 1000 in the configurat...

This video explores how you can use the IDE to create custom data capture controls for the work item blade. Typically this approach is used where form builder isn't sufficient to implement more complex UI logic, or where you want to pull data from an external system into your work item blade....

In this video we extend the portal widget we've built so far to take the list of data and perform some basic aggregations on it to show summary information.    ...

In this last video touching on custom widgets, we create another portal widget that is used on work type portals rather than global ones. We look at the key differences to how the code is structured and use scaffolding to build out the data agent to handle api calls.    ...

In this video, we make a start at extending ShareDo by creating a custom UI component that can be added to portals. We explore and leverage the public API documentation that is available within ShareDo itself and create a widget to find work items matching conditions and present these in a card view to the user.  ...

In this video we run through a summary of what you can do to extend ShareDo as a developer and set the scene for the videos in the series....

In this video, we delve into the detail of consuming an external service from user interface components using the proxy to avoid the common issues that can be encountered.  Key moments 00:00 Overview00:42 Recap01:15 Shared Secret integration type03:07 Fixing security leaks with the proxy04:57 Testing05:26 Doing something useful with the widget: call...