I have a version of the LDAP plugin that has much better error checking. I'll see about committing my changes to the svn repository.
I have the same problem with this module, you must include a test button to test that the data is correct and know well if the errors are of installation, connection or something else
RSS is a cheap way of doing this. Another option is web services. That would require more work, but it would give you more flexibility.
Gr.... I had a comment, but the page expired before I could post it.
I did implement the RSS Feed, and created a few spots on the site where it displays (index, dashboard, groups), but havn't been able to place them everywhere, such as the Spotlight. The customspotlight plugin gives me more flexiblity, and I am using the iframe support to display latest information there.
We are also storing some of our Help page contents into our MSSQL back end, and will be using iframes to display them under our "Help" group. We are storing them in MSSQL, since its corporate backed up, maintained, etc, more so than our mysql database. Other systems may tap into this help table too, so it just makes sense to me. We will be displaying the content through iframes, pointing to a generic Help.php?ID=# page.
My experience with using web services is rather dismal, at best. It seems as though we can never get the information we want, as quickly as we need it. For instance, our JIRA integration to display issues used JIRA Filters. We foundthat we were waiting for JIRA to respond a considerable amount of our time. We now hit use SQL queries to talk to it whenever we can. I don't presume that I would be able to implement anything better.
Thanks for documenting this Jeff - really helpful stuff.
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