Integrate the World with Kentico CMS by Brian McKeiver, Co-Owner at BizStream

Today’s Theme

• Using Integration can take you from…

Rock StarGeek …to

What is Integration

Like mixing data from multiple sources into one perfect song

Allows you to create that one

Killer App

Become a Rock Star

• Manual Entry Sucks but people think it’s the only way

• Integrate your Solutions and your customers will love you

• “WOW – I didn’t even think that was possible”

Kentico CMS as a Platform for Integration

• Why it does integration so well– Built on ASP.NET, SQL Server

• Framework / Foundation– Leverage the Controls, API, Macros– You DO NOT have to roll your own

The Instruments of Integration

• Kentico gives us many different options for Integration– Integration Bus– REST Service– Standard WebService (asmx)– Include Built in Assemblies in external projects– Code in App_Code / Bin– Custom Scheduled Tasks– Social Media Auto Publishing in 7.0

Integration Bus Overview

• It is a Heartbeat

• What you can Sync– Documents– Objects

Both Outgoing & Incoming Directions

Rock Star Tip #1

• When using the Integration Bus for Documents under Workflow; use TaskTypeEnum.PublishDocument

Integration Bus Detail

• Connectors– .Net Class that Developer Implements (Inbound / Outbound)

• Subscriptions– Determines the scope of tracked changes to be synchronized.– Global / Objects / Documents

• Data Modes (Task Data Type)– Simple: When you need to sync some of the object or document

• A handful of properties need updating– SimpleSnaphot: When you need to sync entire object or document

• Preserves FKs, – Snapshot: When you need to sync multiple objects

• Object and it’s children, Polls with Poll Answers

Integration Bus Demo

• 5 mins of code walkthroughINT. Bus DEMO

REST Service

• What is REST– Architecture Style– URL Based Resource– ASP.NET commonly uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)– Full object model of Kentico CMS made available

Rock Star Tip #2

• Observe REST operations at the lowest level– Fiddler is your friend

• Web Debugging Proxy

REST Service Example

• 5 mins of example walkthroughREST Example

REST Service - CGH 1

Kentico CMS E-Commerce & Point of Sale integrationhttp://www.CountrysideGreenhouse.com

REST Service - CGH 2

REST Service does the work• Two way integration

REST Service - CGH 3

REST Service does the work• Updates Status

– POST to /REST

Social Media Auto Publishing

• Developers, Content Editors, Business Owners, Support Staff, Everyone is…– Let Kentico CMS 7.0 do the work for you

LAZY

Shameless Plug

• My Blog: Mcbeev.com– For full Blog Post Series

Social Medial Auto Publishing Demo

• 5 mins of product walkthroughAuto Publish DEMO

Rock Star Tip #3

• Document Type field ends in AutoPost

• Value of Long text specified as it’s attribute type

In Summary

• Kentico is a perfect platform for Integration

• Rock out with your Instruments of Integration– Integration Bus– REST Service– Auto Publishing

• Deliver Integrated Solutions and

graduate from geek to Rock Star

Thank You

Questions ?

• Slides and demo code: http://mcbeev.com/denver2012

Contact

Email:bmckeiver@bizstream.com

Web:http://www.bizstream.com

Blog:http://www.mcbeev.com

Twitter:@mcbeev

LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmckeiver