David Turner on October 31st, 2007

If you’ve used the “Report Grid From Query” module that Arena provides, you know that it can be a powerful and simple way to display custom data within Arena (If you’re a member of the Arena community, you can read how to use this module in the Reporting forum).  Unfortunately, with this module, you’re limited [...]

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David Turner on October 22nd, 2007

If you’ve needed to display an RSS Feed in Arena, you can accomplish this using the “XML File Transform” module.  This module lets you specify an XML source and an XSLT file to use for transforming the XML.  For the XML you can enter a URL to an RSS Feed.

In this example, I’ve set [...]

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David Turner on October 22nd, 2007

If you are a member of the Arena developer community, I’ve uploaded our OutlookSync Application to the community.  OutlookSync allows you to import Arena tag members into Microsoft Outlook as contacts. 
This application is used heavily by our users that have PDA devices as a way to get Arena member contact info onto their [...]

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David Turner on October 20th, 2007

Now that Jon and our infrastructure team have installed and configured Asterisk, we’ve begun to add phone system integration features to Arena.  In the next couple days I’ll show the click-to-call and phone micro-browser features we’ve added, but first wanted to highlight the architecture.
Although we’re using Asterisk, we implemented phone-integration similar to the ASP.NET [...]

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David Turner on October 20th, 2007

We just finished the second Arena developer roundtable.  This time in Phoenix instead of Memphis.  Nick and Phil over at Central Christian Church of the East Valley (CCCEV) hosted the first day, and we (CCV) hosted the second day. 
Most of our conversations focused around the Arena development community and discussing ideas and ways to [...]

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