The Developer's Guide consists of four training sessions presented in February 2025. The sessions cover troubleshooting ShareDo issues, extending ShareDo, creating custom components using the IDE, and ShareDo in a Box.
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Troubleshooting in ShareDo
Developer Guide Session 1 of 4
In this video, the first in a series of four recorded in February 2025, Stu shows how to troubleshoot ShareDo issues. He covers basic diagnostics, common issues, and a couple of useful behind-the-scenes tools.
The console command Stu mentions at the end of the recording is the following:
$ui.debugWidgetNames()
As of version 7.9.0, $ui.debugWidgetNames now supports the team and user blade in the console.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:33 Agenda
02:55 System Administration > Diagnostics
04:13 Search Indexes
09:29 Execution Engine
- Question on more targeted indexing option
- Question about any easy way to find valid Execution Engine errors
16:35 Incoming Emails
19:53 Notifications
21:10 Config Diagnostics (and Option Sets)
25:22 Reporting Jobs
27:30 System Config
- Event Engine Configuration
- Maintenance Plans
34:05 System Settings
36:26 Diagnostic Tools
Step 1 - Error Status Handling
Step 2 - Impersonation
- Question about Error Status Handling
41:15 Data Composer Explorer (and Debug Query)
50:45 Inspect Security for a work item
51:55 Calculated Field Debugging
59:05 Business Rules Debugging
01:04:30 Console Tool (
01:08:36 Document Admin (Templates)
End
Extending ShareDo
Developer Guide Session 2 of 4
Josh presents this, the second of four training sessions, providing an overview from a developer's perspective on what can be extended within ShareDo, the tools involved, and how to accomplish this.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to ShareDo Developers Guide - Session 2
02:02 Agenda
02:52 Tools Overview
06:04 Tools: Workflow / Events
06:57 Tools: Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
07:37 Tools: Code Plugins
08:53 Tools: Authentication
09:44 Building and extending the UI Builder demo
18:29 IDE Widgets
19:24 IDE Blades
20:12 IDE Aspects
22:27 IDE Demo
30:04 Workflow and Actions Overview
32:12 JavaScript Blocks
33:22 Reusable Actions
37:51 External API Calls
40:05 API calls to the Code Plugin
49:22 Public APIs
58:14 Code Extensions
01:07:01 Thank you
IDE Deep Dive
Developer Guide Session 3 of 4
This is the third in a series of four training videos for developers. It deals with using the ShareDo IDE to build custom widgets, workflow actions, and blades. The video also shows integrations with these custom-built components.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Agenda
02:32 Tech Forum Orientation
03:08 Using the IDE to Build Widgets: What are Widgets?
05:23 Widgets: Online Help / Knowledge Base
06:18 Demo: Building a Risk Widget Using the IDE
25:54 Using the IDE to Build Blades: What is A Blade?
27:59 Demo: Creating an Audit Detail Blade
34:54 Using the IDE to Build
Aspects: What is an Aspect?
35:38 Demo: Creating Aspects
38:23 Using the IDE to Build Workflow Actions: What is Workflow?
42:56 Demo: Building a Create Property Action
01:24:23 Data Upload Scenario
01:31:21 How do you use the Data Table Upload command?
01:36:30 Seeing it in action
01:42:40 Data Table Uploader: How does Event Streaming work?
01:51:31 Intro to Linked Service and the Proxy
01:56:42 Demo: Creating a PMS Widget
01:57:21 Demo: Custom Workflow Actions - PMS
01:57:57 Wrapping Up
Beyond the IDE: ShareDo in a Box and Plugins
Developers Guide Session 4 of 4
This is the fourth and final in a series of developer training videos. It demonstrates ShareDo in a Box and extending ShareDo with plugins.
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Chapters
00:00 Session overview
01:15 What is ShareDo in a Box?
04:20 Caveats and limitations
07:12 ShareDo in a Box installation video
21:25 Demo: ShareDo in a Box
27:30 Plugins: Extending ShareDo
29:53 What is a Plugin?
33:10 Why use a Plugin?
36:00 Disadvantages of using Plugins
38:45 Plugin development lifecycle
39:49 Demo: Building a movie list
01:02:30 Summary
01:04:28 Questions