XMod Pro User Group, July 2014
Recording of the live stream of the July XMod Pro online User Group meeting, held on July 24th 2014.
Patrick Ryan showed off the Classifieds System he built for his website Local Livin’ Ads and Ryan Moore discussed his work with XMP and integration of Google Maps.
Here’s the timeline for the July 24, 2014 XMod Pro online user group meeting
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00:00 — 00:55 FAN Noise (Loud)
01:15 – Kelly - Agenda; Patrick - show Local Livin’ Ads Classifieds solution; Ryan - Google Maps Integration with XMod Pro; Change in process - notify Kelly or Melinda to get invited to present. Meet every month on 4th Thursday 11am PST, 2pm EST, 7pm BST
04:15 – Patrick Ryan - Local Livin’ Ads Demo (Classifieds)
05:46 – 1st screenshare of demo
06:15 – Make a site that does not look like DNN
07:00 – Site description
08:30 – Feeds to change display dynamically. “Feeds are templates ‘outside of the box’”.
08:15 – Description of Feed data flow
10:15 – Everything on the page a single XMod Pro module instance; all AJAX enabled
11:50 – Workflow re: message to item ‘lister’; message notices, etc.
15:50 – Ad interface (publish, maintain, mark sold, etc.)
16:50 – Posting an Ad
18:40 – Comment management
19:45 – Administrative side
20:45 – Use of Stored Procedures
21:15 – Reputation System
23:00 – “Levels” with regard to user trust – up (if number of adds approved exceeds) and down (if rejected)
25:00 – Classified are going to release as a package/release. Maybe messaging, comments, etc.
26:30 – Shows Ad Display template; uses bootstrap for CSS framework; jQuery to call feeds
29:45 – Kelly, “Categories sidebar would be a good presentation for the group”.
30:25 – Stored Procedure code to get Categories, etc.
32:30 – End
34:45 – Ryan Moore; Moore Creative integration of Google Maps
40:30 – Actual start of Presentation
41:00 – Dashboard
41:45 – Gantt chart view (status by phase); Google chart (JSON)
43:00 – Table view of same project (different tab); jQuery used. Is a table vs div.
44:40 – Error trapping (Gantt will not render if end proceeds start date)
49:40 – Export Excel file
50:00 – Google Maps presentation; where projects where occurring (cell tower building). Created trip schedule to optimize routes.
51:15 – Filters
52:00 – Drag and drop selection and trip sequencing (Google ‘traveling salesman to help with best route; 321 or 213, etc.). Handful of templates. Pop up window re: adding trip details
54:40 – No page refreshes; has AJAX calls, ton of Feeds
55:15 – Different App: Help produce a Map in business directory; Google Map module kit to be delivered. Excellent example of ‘business directory’ type thing
57:40 – Kelly, “Perhaps Ryan could come back and show us a simple integration with Google Maps App” - in the future.
59:00 – Meet the 4th Thursday of every month. Future plans - possible extra on-air training session for people who want to build extensions for XMod Pro?