I want to build a Flow that when a Node (an article) is created in Drupal, the Title of the Node is published to Facebook as Message. The publishing of Messages to Facebook is no problem, but i have no idea how to get the Event of Creating new Content in a Drupal Installation. Any Suggestions?
From a pure Mule point of view with no changes to Drupal you could poll the index-nodes operation of the Drupal connector http://mulesoft.github.io/drupal-connector/mule/drupal-config.html#index-nodes
<poll frequency="60000">
<drupal:index-nodes startPage="1" pagesize="10">
<drupal:fields>
<drupal:field>nid</drupal:field>
<drupal:field>type</drupal:field>
<drupal:field>title</drupal:field>
</drupal:fields>
</drupal:index-nodes>
</poll>
You would then have to somehow persist a marker such as the last modified date or the last page number in a persistent object-store so it can be read on the next poll so you know which nodes have been processed or which page to start from. If you're using Mule 3.5... then there's a new "watermark" feature for that specific type of functionality. A bit of info on watermarks here: https://www.mulesoft.org/jira/browse/MULE-6861
However a better solution to polling would be to use a message queue such as ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ that Drupal could publish a message to via Stomp for example and Mule can pick up it up via a JMS inbound endpoint or an AMQP inbound endpoint - dependant on what messaging you go with. This way messages are pushed rather than pulled, but does require Drupal customisation.
From the Drupal side of things you could write a simple custom module and implement hook_node_insert(), e.g.
function MYMODULE_node_insert($node) {
if ($node->type == 'article') {
push_article($node->title);
}
}
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I am currently looking at the options to add real-time tracking of all the messages going over in my application.
I have enabled messagehistory so technically I'll get all the steps happened during the flow.
Now I want to store each message with the history in disk cache using CQEngine as it has great support and is very quick.
Then from the UI I'll show the message and history and display using GraphVIZ so the users can actually see the lifecycle of each message with diagram.
Option # 01
Add the call in the handle() method in each flow to add the message and history asynchrnously in the disk cache.
But this means I'll have to manually do that every time for new flow.
Is there any option 02 I can utilize like adding interceptor etc that
will be called whenever a flow is completed succesfully or
un-sucessfully?
You need to use a WireTap interceptor for channels: https://docs.spring.io/spring-integration/docs/5.2.2.RELEASE/reference/html/core.html#channel-interceptors.
And configure a global channel interceptor pattern for that wire-tap to specify those channels you would like to track. The same doc has info on the matter. Also see annotation configuration on the matter: https://docs.spring.io/spring-integration/docs/5.2.2.RELEASE/reference/html/configuration.html#annotations
I'm in the process of writing an app to interface with a service running on another machine. When I ask this service for some information, this service adds the requested information to a separate queue, and sends a windows message to the calling application (my application) indicating there is a message waiting in this separate queue which needs to be decoded.
The windows message this service sends is a custom message, defined in the service code as having some constant int value. I've found examples of creating custom events in wxpython, and using TryBefore() and TryAfter() to react to these events in specific ways, but I haven't found any way to associate this NewEvent() with an int value so I can identify it when it comes in, much less any way to determine what an int value of an incoming event is.
Has anyone done this before or know of any functions I'm not aware of? I'm using python 3.6 and wxpython 4.0.
Thanks for your help, everyone.
I think this is what you are looking for: https://wiki.wxpython.org/HookingTheWndProc
When you get the custom message from the hooked WndProc you can either react to it there, or you can turn it into a wx event and send it so it can be caught by binding an event handler like normal. The wx.lib.newevent module has some helpers for creating a custom event class and an event binder. Its use is demonstrated in some of the demo samples and library modules.
Advance warning: Im an absolute newbie to Dynamics CRM!
Intention
I want to have a feature like Lync/Skype integration but use my own URL. (Click on any telephone number inside CRM and call it).
For eg. assuming I have a web service which can initiate a call per URL: http://telephony.com/call?nr=012345678. Now, whenever a CRM user clicks onto a telephone number field (in forms and views) inside the CRM my web service should be called instead of Skype/Lync.
In fact I'm trying to reproduce sth. like the InGenius Connecter.
Attempts
I already tried to inject a JS web resource to a specific formular (in my case it was the default contact form) and override the Mscrm.ReadFormUtilities.openPhoneClient callback (which seems to handle the Lync/Skype integration).
function load() {
// override integrated CTC (Lync/Skype)
Mscrm.ReadFormUtilities.openPhoneClient = function (telephoneNr) {
// redirect user to my web service
window.location.replace("http://telephony.com/call?nr="+telephoneNr);
return;
}
}
Found this method at: Disable Lync completely
This does work well in forms of Dynamics 2015 (my custom link pops up instead of Skype/Lync). However, this does only work on entity forms since I can't inject web resources into an entity view.
My other ideas how to implement such a feature are:
Inject global JS resource which disables Lync/Skype and encapsulate every telephone number with link to my custom URL.
Extend/Manipulate Lync/Skype integration to use my custom URL instead of Lync/Skype.
Write plugin which encapsulate telephone numbers server side.
Question
Since I have a grasp understanding of Dynamics and no experience in plugin/resource development, I'm left a bit confused with these questions.
Is it possible to achieve any of the three ideas above ?
If not, any idea how InGenius solved this problem ?
Do you have any other idea/resources about this topic ?
Currently I found two options available to achieve a custom CTC feature. (Both has the downside of not being officialy supported by the dynamics crm.)
Global Ribbon
Pretty simple: Add a Click-To-Call button to global ribbon which is only enabled on specific grids when one row is selected.
This button refers to an JS-Action which retrieves the telephone number via ODATA and then launches the dial process.
Global Ribbon CustomRule injection
Add a global button to ribbon which refers to a JS resource per <CustomRule>. The JScript then unbinds all actions from links with .ms-crm-Phone classes and replaces its href-attribute.
This would be useful if one want to override the integrated "Skype / Lync - Click to Dial" feature with his own logic.
I didn't test this method until now, so I can't guarentee it's working !
Note: I will include example scripts as soon I got the time.
I have a VS 2013 Lightswitch HTML Client application to which I've added a button that makes a Web API REST post. This basically 'refreshes' the data in the table from the original upstream source. This is all working correctly, but the operation takes a few minutes, and I want to report status to the user as it runs.
Right now, I've tried attaching a simple Refresh when the post returns as follows:
$.post("/api/data/", "Refresh", function (response) {
screen.getData().then(function (newData) { screen.reQuery(); });
});
This doesn't actually seem to do a refresh (screen.reQuery is apparently the wrong call), but the better option would be to instead have the server show progress of this long-running application.
One thought I had would be to have the server call return data in the form of "percent done" in the response as it processes it, but I don't know if this would be delivered to the client piecemeal, nor the best way to display this to the user in Lightswitch.
I'm open to other third-party libraries that might help with this, but I'd like to stick with WebAPI for commanding instead of adding something like SignalR for now, if possible. Thanks!
In general this seems like not the best idea to run operations that takes minutes on the server.
A reasonable alternative is to create a single call, that will in turn create multiple Web Jobs (see Azure Web Jobs for more info). The Web Jobs will be broken to smaller individual tasks, and your html will query the web jobs rather than your Web API.
I have an ASP.NET web service which does some heavy lifting, like say,some file operations, or generating Excel Sheets from a bunch of crystal reports. I don't want to be blocked by calling this web service, so i want to make the web service call asynchronous. Also, I want to call this web service from a web page, and want some mechanism which will allow me to keep polling the server so that i can i can show some indicator of progress on the screen, like say, the number of files that have been processed. Please note that i do not want a notification on completion of the web method call, rather, i want a live progress status. How do i go about it?
Write a separate method on the server that you can query by passing the ID of the job that has been scheduled and which returns an approximate value between 0-100 (or 0.0 and 1.0, or whatever) of how far along it is.
E.g. in REST-style, you could make a GET request to http://yourserver.com/app/jobstatus/4133/ which would return a simple '52' as text/plain. Then you just have to query that every (second? two seconds? ten seconds?) to see how far along it is.
How you actually accomplish the monitoring on the backend hugely depends on what your process is and how it works.
I think XML web service is slow, so creating multiple methods and polling the progress will be extremely slow and will generate huge load on the server. I wouldn't do it in production environment. I see the same (but smaller) problems with database polling.
Try SOAP extensions instead. It implements an event-driven model. See Adding a Progress Bar to Your Web Service Client Application on MSDN.
You can also use SoapExtensions to notify your client of the download/process progress. The server can then send events to the client. Nothing in the client has to be changed if you don't use it.
Allows for something like this in your client:
//...
private localhost.MyWebServiceService _myWebService = new localhost.MyWebServiceService ();
_myWebService.processDelegate += ProgressUpdate;
_myWebService.CallHeavyMethod();
//...
private void ProgressUpdate(object sender, ProgressEventArgs e)
{
double progress = ((double)e.ProcessedSize / (double)e.TotalSize) * 100.00;
//Show Progress...
}
Have the initial "start report generation" web service call create a task in some task pool, and return the caller the ID of the task.
Then, provide another method that returns the "percent done" for a given taskId.
Provide a third method that returns the actual result for a completed task.
Easiest way would be to have the Web Service update a field on a database with the progress of the call, and then create a Web Service that queries that field and returns the value.
Make the web service to return some sort of task ID or session ID. Make another web method to query with that ID, which returns the information needed (% completion, list of files, whatever). Poll this method at some interval from the client.
Use a database to store the process information, if you do this in memory of the web service, this will not scale well in web farm environment, as it may happen that the task runs on another server, than the one you are polling.
EDIT: I just saw another similar answer, and comment to it. The commenter is right - you can use in-memory table to avoid disk operations, but still using a separate db server.