So I'm interested in learning how to program a Gmail gadget to do some silly things but I have no experience in it. I have spent the past month or so sporadically reading through the API (https://developers.google.com/gmail/contextual_gadgets), but haven't made much progress. I was wondering if anyone with experience would be willing to answer the following:
1) What files exactly do we need for a gadget? Just the manifest and the spec? Should they have specific names?
2) https://developers.google.com/gmail/contextual_gadgets?csw=1#hello_world_example_manifest Where this link has the example code and says to substitute your own info in for example.com, what does that mean? And why do we need to do this?
3) Would you have some really simple gadget, i.e. a 'hello world' that you would be willing to share as an example? (I'm not trying to steal your code, I'm just interested in seeing a full finished piece and seeing what I need to work on in my project)
Thanks a bunch!
For creating a gadget you need minimum of 2 files.
manifest.xml - specifies extractor and gadget
gadget.xml - it includes what you would like to display in mail
Check this guide for more details.
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I am trying to develop a contextual gadget, but not getting any documentation for it. Google provides a document which is very old and not updated from long time. Process explained in that documentation to develop a gadget is deprecated.
Please if anyone have solution, help me.
You may want to check full documentation in Gmail Contextual Gadgets which was last updated June 29, 2016.
To develop a Gmail Contextual Gadgets, you may want to first check the given implementation parts also discussed in the documentation. Then, you may go through these summary of steps:
Use JQuery, or write JavaScript that conforms to ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode.
Note: You need to be using the correct development frameworks to provide an extra layer of protection between your gadget's potential vulnerabilities and your end users. To find out why, see Using the right frameworks for security.
Choose one or more pre-canned extractors. This determines which type of content will trigger your gadget.
Write a manifest for the gadget.
Write the gadget spec. This determines what the gadget will do when it is triggered.
Publish the gadget spec to a location which is accessible on the public Internet. An intranet will not work. Your hard drive will not work. (Why? Google's servers need to download the gadget. If they can't reach it, then Gmail can't display it.)
Install the gadget.
Test the gadget by sending yourself some email. The gadget should appear in Gmail whenever you read an email that contains the right sort of content. For more tips on testing gadgets, see Publishing Your Gadget in the gadgets API site.
It will really help if you go through the documentation as there are best practices, limitations and important details that you should note.
This related SO post might also help.
I am very confused as to how the API of DocuSign works, I tried looking it up here:
https://www.docusign.com/p/RESTAPIGuide/RESTAPIGuide.htm
But that didn't help me much, especially not because I need to implement DocuSign into the open source version of Vtiger.
Does anybody here know a site where I can learn more about DocuSign and how I can combine it with Vtiger open source?
As for what I already tried that is nothing, I first need to make a functional design which is kind of hard to do when you don't even understand the basic API.
I would really appreciate it.
I have never worked with an API before, so this is all new for me.
Have you tried the API overview instead of the reference guide? Check this out:
https://www.docusign.com/developer-center/api-overview
You can also look at the API Recipes to see some starting examples of what you can do in any language. I believe VTiger is written in PHP so you can find the PHP code to copy and paste to get you started.
I got Developer Account of Netsuite. And Know Javascript well. Downloaded SuiteCloud in Eclipse (Though my first Suitelet code is showing errors when I ran it on eclipse as shown in the help centre). Can use Help Centre and Also I have register for the Forum.
Now I need to learn Netsuite, so what should be my first few steps that needs to be taken so that I can proceed properly with learning.
Your guidance will be valuable.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards
Glad
As mentioned above you already owned a Dev account and have eclipse setup with you, so I guess you might have already learnt the essentials of using eclipse plugin for Netsuite. I would rather recommend to play with some client and user event script samples (NS help center) and the deployment process to have an idea how the whole process works in conjunction with record objects. Learning Suitelet involves a lot of learning curves. So better off you jump into Suitelet once you have enough knowledge on the script types and their usages.
I am asking this question because the information on tutorials is terribly vague for a novice. Concretely, I am trying to put up an extractor to use in Gmail Contextual App. Here is where it gets complicated. To make a Gmail Contextual App, I need to upload my app code as extractor on Google Apps Extensions Console, but I am just unable to access or know where is this page. All it say here is that
Point your browser to http://code.google.com/googleapps/console/a/yourDomainName.
Well I did exactly that, considering a project at code.google.com doesn't have any place to upload an extractor, and pointed to instead
http://code.google.com/googleapps/console/a/GodKnowsWhatTheHeckIsThis
Where GodKnowsWhatTheHeckIsThis is completly arbitrary, I was expecting some magic here that somehow I will be taken to a project that I have not even created.
Well what happened instead is: infinite recursion.
Can you please help me here? I will be terribly grateful.
Hi
I'm looking for a tool (free/paid) like a program that help me in reviewing my website style and interface such as explain the content of the home page (footer, header ..... ) taking snapshots and write comment on them ... I know this can be done using (print screen) and the MS paint but I need a more professional tool to use .
thank you in advance
I'm not sure if I understand well, but conceptshare may be the tool you looking for.
There's a firefox extension called Screengrab that can capture an entire page. You could add annotations to that quite easily in a DTP tool.
I'm not sure about the type of review you're looking for.
If you want to have people using the website and giving you their feedback in terms of navigation, layout, design and content, you can use a www.usertesting.com services.
They'll enroll users to test out the website and them give you a URl to review a video/audio recording of each user test. It's a great way to validate your website.
Hope this is what you were looking for...