Developer News

Announcing Photowall

David Bistolas — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:59:47 -0500

Coming in 2021: Photowall

We've been hard at work developing a new integration called "Photowall". Photowall will allow users to upload a picture, other than their standard profile photo, and add some additional information about themselves. We'll release additional detail in the first quarter of 2021, but because a picture is worth a thousand…

Easily integrate your existing web apps

David Bistolas — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 07:00:38 -0500

If you count yourselves among the many organizations who have built web-based tools for employees to use, then you most likely know what a challenge it is to drive traffic to your tools. Many of our customers create links to those tools from within their Igloo site, but what if there was a way to surface your custom built application or content…

Speak up and be heard!

David Bistolas — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:49:05 -0400

Developers -

What do you want to see in the next version of our development tools? Are there features you miss?
What would make your life easier as you extend and enhance your Igloo?

We would love to hear your thoughts and ideas. We'll chime in too!

Working With The API Documentation Within Your Own Digital Workplace

David Bistolas — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

We're making some minor changes to the documentation in Customer Care

When we updated our developer documentation using SwaggerUI the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Moving to the OpenAPI standard meant that most developers would feel right at home with our API documentation.

However, in our next release, we will be disabling the ‘try it…

Extending and Integrating your Digital Workplace

David Bistolas — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:47:38 -0400

What Is The Igloo Marketplace?

The Igloo Marketplace is our "app store". It's your one stop shop for extending, integrating and maintaining your Igloo Digital Workplace.

App stores are not a new idea- even Apple’s IOS Appstore – which launched in July 2008 with the release of the iPhone 3G wasn’t the first – that honor belongs to one…

How we approach a problem

David Bistolas — Sun, 31 May 2020 17:01:50 -0400

Igloo Developer Relations works with partners and customers who are developing extensions or solutions that fit their specific needs. We also build solutions ourselves to solve problems for customers – both internal and external.

There are times when a low-level solution to a high-level problem can seem daunting – How do you solve for X when you…

What's after the first step when building with Igloo APIs

Deep Raithatha — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 16:02:32 -0400

When you have successfully created a session with either the V1 or V2 APIs, you should have obtained a SessionKey or TokenID. To start building your customized functionality/integration it is important that you are authorized to do so. Your digital community knows that you are authorized to make API calls when you include the SessionKey or TokenID…

Syncing users from AD to your digital workplace

Deep Raithatha — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:10:02 -0400

Membership Management is a very important aspect of your digital workplace. Ensuring that your organization's active directory is synced at all time, insures the integrity of the digital workplace and allows for better team collaboration via groups and spaces. Igloo provided a variety of ways to help you achieve this functionality:

Igloo LDAP…

New APIv2 endpoints are here!

Harun Sheikhali — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:08:56 -0400

In a previous post, (New endpoints coming soon) we announced new APIs that developers can use to retrieve content programmatically without impacting view analytics. These APIs are now available for use in your projects, continue reading to learn how they work.

If you're using the /.api/api.svc/objects/{OBJECT_ID}/view endpoint to retrieve content…

Category Classes and Category Labels

David Bistolas — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:05:41 -0400

Using labels on content makes it easy to categorize and search for content relevant to your users. Did you know that you can also create labels and label groups using the API?

Category Classes? Categories? Labels? Label Groups? What's the difference?

In the Igloo API, labels are called 'Categories', and label groups are referred to as 'Category…