Universal WorkList Alchemy Plugin for SDL WEB

Centralized way of Managing all the tasks Universal Work List is used to manage ,respond to ,assign daily task or delegate tasks to peers.With the help of this plugin you will able to manage all our task and communication from CMS.

Features of this plugin

1. Create Task and assign to peers.
2. Update Task status and put your comments.
3. Re-assign task you any user.
4. Assign any task to yourself.
5. Dashboard.
6. Powered by SOLR 6.5

Let's go through the each screens one by one and understand how its works and its functionality. 

Landing page where you will see all the task assign to you and you can filter them as well to render data I have used JSgrid which gives all the feature such as pagination,sorting etc.

Landing page

 Here, I will have all the task assign to me rendering and I can create the task ,by clicking on the uniqueKey it will take user to Task update page, where user can update comments and status

Update Task

Here user can update comments ,update task status,Re-assign to other user . All the data is stored in SOLR. 

Next ,is how to create a task.In the create task panel you have 

1. Task assign to field.
2. Watcher or you can say second look.
3. Priority is defined.
4. Environment 
5. Issue description.   

   

   Create Task

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Alchemy Chat Plugin For SDL WEB

This plugin is used to communicate with all CMS user as in group or one to one chat.I have used JQuery,WEB API and SOLR to store all the chat data.
By default it will load top 100 messages based on datetime in your chat window for both group and one to one chat,with the help of this plugin we can easily communicate with all CMS users without any problem,most of the time we face this problem when our client or editors are only accessible via emails not on chat.

To use this plugin we need to install SOLR

1. Download SOLR here .I have used SOLR version 6.5
2. Create core in SOLR
3. Update managed-Schema.xml and add following fields.
4. Re-Start :- solr start -p <portNumber>
5. Chat Plugin will load all the CMS users using coreservice.
6. In the group window your message will be visible to all CMS users.
7. In One2One only the participates. 

<field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" multiValued="false" />
<field name="Message" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" required="false" multiValued="false" />
<field name="MessageId" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="false" multiValued="false" />
<field name="User" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" required="false" multiValued="false" />
<field name="TimeStamp" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="false" multiValued="false" />
<field name="isPrivateChat" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="false" multiValued="false" />
<field name="chatWith" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="false" multiValued="false" />
<field name="privateChatID" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="false" multiValued="true" />

Once all this is done install the plugin and start chatting with all the CMS users,or you can chat with any user one to one.

Install chat Plugin

Group chat with all CMS users.

Group chat data index in SOLR

One to one chat with CMS user.

One to One Chat

One to one chat data in SOLR

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Alchemy Plugin for WEB8 Dashboard

This is in continuation of my previous post where we build Alchemy plugin to download and search CMS items.I have further enhanced that one and added new feature as CMS level dashboard where we have multiple data points options and multiple chart options to represent the data in pictorial form.

Let's see the new addition in this Plugin DASHBOARD.
Dashboards often provide at-a-glance views.A data dashboard is an information management tool that visually tracks, analyzes and displays key performance using pictorial representation of the data , with the help of this dashboard we can identity the usage of different CMS items based on date using charts.

Here,We have 3 filters.

Dashboard

Let's  run this and see how its looks like with all the charts and information which represent .Let's generate charts based on All the components created month wise using all three charts.
1.Bar and Column Chart.

Bar and Column chart

 2.All three charts representing the number of content created month wise in pictorial form we can have same information available year wise as well.

All three charts.

3.Similar to components right we can generate information for pages for month and year wise.
4. Schema utilization number of components created using any particular schema

Schema utilization

With the help of all these information when can do CMS DB forecasting, CMS clean-up activity,Content growth.I have used Core Service,JQuery and Google visualization API to create dashboard.

Let's see the enhancement in the existing report Plugin.

1. Download button to export the search data in .csv format.
2. <a> link to open any item in the CMS to verify or cross check.
3. You can open any Item in same or new window.
4. Improved UI
5. JQuery searching to filter data

Anchor tag with UI improvement

Download and Data searching .

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Alchemy plugin to download report from SDL WEB8

We all have came a across from a situation where we need to deploy/port CMS items from one environment to another for that we have Content porter but we need to manually identity(list of items which got created or modified after a certain date) items which we need to migrate.We used Bundle Schema to clubbed all the items at one location but that is again what if we missed any item and as a result content porting might failed due to some or the other dependency.

Here, is an Alchemy plugin which will allow you to download report from CMS based on date.I have used coreService,jQuery to build this plugin and a .ASPX page which is for popup.

This plugin will help you in migration as well where you need to identify items from across CMS.

Steps 

1.    Download the Developer pack from visual studio gallery Link.

2.    Alchemy version that I have used can be downloaded from Alchemy4Tridion link.

3.    Create a project selecting "Starter Plugin Project" template change the project name .

4.    Build the project and navigate to the generated .a4t file.

5.    Drag and drop the file in alchemy window.

Alchemy Plugin Installed.

Let go to CME,

Plugin is installed and ready for use

Let run the plugin and get some records form CM Database.

Custom Popup to Download data

Using Jquery Table searching you can filter the records as well. It will look for the text in all the columns.With the help of Jquery searching you can filter data based on date as well.

Search

You,can download the sample code from here

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