Using Social UI elements and Templates

[grossd]

Hello,

Thinking about the application I want to create with Wakanda, I am wondering how one would include social media UI elements on a web app site. For example, I'd like include friends as well as commenting. Has this already been done.

Also, the web app would essentially be a web site, with different pages having same look and feel. Is it possible to have a website template that takes care of common CSS/XHTML, for example.

thank you,

Daniel

[Alexandre Morgaut]

Wakanda pages are standard XHTML5 pages, so Twitter or Facebook widget are quite simple to include in.
I wanted to create a custom Wakanda widget allowing to drag'n drop and configure Twitter ones from the GUI Designer but I had other priorities first ;-)

For templating I would recommend you to use Web Components
You could either:
- do a SPA (Single Page Application) with a main layout and dynamically loaded components
- or a Multiple pages Website (easier to reference for SEO) and integrate the same base components in each pages
Of course you can have mix: multiple pages + dynamically loaded Web Components

Once you designed the style of a widget, you can save it as a skin and apply it to other ones all over the project

[grossd]

Thank you Alexandre,

Starting to better understand the prototype i am asked to develop, it looks like a first step it would be for individuals. The next release would need to include social networking capabilities, which probably means a) the ability to connect to friends and learn about some of the "resources" they share; and b) offer behind the scene analytics, that can analyze members of the network and draw useful conclusions.

I am wondering:

a) there is no social networking framework for wakanda available; is there one in the offering in the not too far future.
b) is it easily possible to plug analytical engines into the wakanda database, which would store a lot of the user behavioral data; was something like that already done?

many thanks,

Dan

[Ronald Pfitzer]

Hi Alexandre,

what is the purpose of the widget skins? Some attributes are stored some are not stored, so I saw that attributes for different states (like 'selected') or not contained in the skin created before.

Regards Ronald

Wakanda pages are standard XHTML5 pages, so Twitter or Facebook widget are quite simple to include in.
I wanted to create a custom Wakanda widget allowing to drag'n drop and configure Twitter ones from the GUI Designer but I had other priorities first ;-)

For templating I would recommend you to use Web Components
You could either:
- do a SPA (Single Page Application) with a main layout and dynamically loaded components
- or a Multiple pages Website (easier to reference for SEO) and integrate the same base components in each pages
Of course you can have mix: multiple pages + dynamically loaded Web Components

Once you designed the style of a widget, you can save it as a skin and apply it to other ones all over the project

[Greg]

Widget skins are designed to allow easy application of complex styles. States are supposed to work in widget skins, but there was a problem recently (May 25th). I'm surprised to hear they don't work. I didn't submit a bug at that time, must have fell off the person's list I emailed... I just submitted a bug: WAK0077395

Do a search in the bug section and list the other attributes you found that do not make it into the widget skin as I only mentioned states.

Skins are a super effective tool in a lot of circumstances.

I am waiting for the day we can make custom themes though - that will be what I am most interested in.