Mindtouch Platform 360

MindTouch Application and Platform 360°
@MindTouch

Agenda
Getting Started
Install and deploy
Feature Highlights
Managing, authoring, discovery, and tools
Customizing
Selecting a custom look & feel
Platform
Building on the platform

Getting Started

Installation Options
Windows
Server 2003
Server 2008
Cloud
VMware ESXi
Amazon EC2
Linux
RHEL 5
CentOS
Ubuntu 9
Debian 5
SLES 10
Supported Databases
MySQL 5.x

Deployment Options
All-in-one
Application and database on same machine
Horizontal Cluster
Multiple application servers with a scalable database backend
Vertical Cluster
Dedicated servers for search and extensions
Multi-Tenant
Run multiple sites on one installation

DEMO: VM Installation
Startup VM in VMware ESX/Player/Fusion.
Connect to VM's IP address.
Complete setup screen.
Done!

Feature Highlights

Feature Cheat Sheet
Setup
Themes, Authentication, Extensions
Managing
Users, Groups, Roles, Bans
Authoring
Editor, Templates, Video, Files, Converters
Discovery
Hierarchy, Tagging, Search, Activity
Tools
Desktop Suite, ScanSnap, ScreenSteps

Setup
Theme & Skin
Authentication
External Authentication (AD/LDAP, OpenID, …)
Implicit Authentication (SSO, Kerberos, …)
Extending Functionality
Native Extensions (Salesforce, MS Access, …)
Script Extensions (Twitter, MathML, …)
Remote Extensions (PHP, Java, Python, …)

Managing
Roles
Set permissions: read, create, delete, …
Users
Part of one or more groups
Groups
Optionally mapped to groups from AD/LDAP
Bans
By user name or IP
For a limited time or forever

Authoring
Editor
WYSIWYG, Native HTML & CSS
Templates
For content and automation
Video
Embed and collaborate
Files
Indexed and revisioned
Converters
MediaWiki, Atlassian Confluence

Discovery
Hierarchy
Intuitive organization, automatic linking
Tagging
Relate content, create categories
Search
Pages, files, comments, and meta-data
Activity
See what has changed
Be notified when it changes

Tools
Desktop Suite
Drag & drop desktop connector
One-click publish Microsoft Word documents
One-click publish Microsoft Outlook emails
Aurelia Reporter
Publish any document
Fujitsu ScanSnap
Publish paper documents
ScreenSteps Desktop Pro
Publish screenshots with instructions

DEMO: Features
Creating and editing pages
Attaching files and images
Using templates
Recording a video
Tracking changes

Customizing

Default Themes & Skins
4 Themes
Ace
Fiesta
Deuce
Beech
30+ Skins
Dynamic & fixed width layouts
Ranging from simple, professional to fun, consumer oriented

Theme – Ace (2 skins)

Theme – Fiesta (18 skins)

Theme – Deuce (1 skin)

Custom Themes & Skins

Theme & Skin Files
Framework
/skins
theme
skin

DEMO: Skins & Control Panel
Accessing the control panel
Changing skins
Managing users and groups
Adding authentication and extension services
Enabling Kaltura video collaboration

Platform

Platform
Web-Oriented Architecture
Everything is done over HTTP
100% RESTful XML/JSON API
Access API with any programming language
Extensions
Native .NET, XML script, or anything remote
PHP Plug-Ins
Custom functionality in the UI
DekiScript
Automate page contents

Web-Oriented Architecture
UserExperience
WebServer
Business
Logic
Extensions
Browser
UI
API
Feature
App
Server
App
Server
HTTP
HTTP
HTTP
Components
Desktop/Devices
Lucene
HTTP
HTTP

Application Anatomy
Themes
Templates
DekiScript/JS
PHP/JS
UI
API
Extensions
Plug Ins
C#/.NET
Web-Services Host
Web Server
Operating System

DReAM Framework (.NET/Mono)
REST services runtime & host
Run services as IIS handler, Windows service, or command line console
Libraries
Web Communication: Plug, XUri
Concurrent Programming: Result, Coroutines, ElasticThreadPool
XML Manipulation: XDoc
License
Apache 2.0

API Quick Facts
Used by UI, Desktop Suite, Aurelia Reporter, ScreenSteps
100% coverage
187 API entry points
4 primary operations
GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
(rare) HEAD, LOCK, OPTIONS
Flexible response formats
XML, JSON, and sPHP

Sample API Entry Points
Content
/@api/deki/pages/{pageid}
/@api/deki/pages/={pagetitle}
Revisions
/@api/deki/pages/{pageid}/revisions
Files
/@api/deki/pages/{pageid}/files
Users
/@api/deki/users/current
/@api/deki/users/{userid}

Extensions

DekiScript Quick Facts
Sandboxed scripting language
Cannot access restricted content
Cannot exceed certain amount of time to finish
Cannot exceed certain amount of memory
Similar to JavaScript
With constructs from C#, Python, and Lua
Native wiki support
Query pages, users, files, search, etc.
Native web support
Fetch and embed dynamic HTML/XML/JSON

Data Types

Statements and Operations
<ul>
foreach(var image in page.files where string.endswith(x.name, '.gif’)) {
<li >
<a href=(image.uri)> image.name </a>
</li>
}
</ul>

DEMO: Apps
ToDo List
Charts
Semantic Content

MindTouch Application and Platform 360°
@MindTouch

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Mindtouch Platform 360

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