5 posts tagged with "App development"

The final part of the four-part DeskDesk tutorial. Part 3 made bookings appear in NC Calendar with one schema annotation. Part 4 brings external knowledge — zone-specific etiquette, equipment notes, troubleshooting — from xWiki into the desk detail sidebar via a knowledge_article OpenRegister schema. Then we package the app and ship it.

External knowledge integration is the canonical case for OpenConnector: pull data from a system you don't own (xWiki here, but the same applies to Confluence, Notion, SharePoint, Decos, Mendix), surface it inside Nextcloud-native UI without making the user context-switch.

This is Part 3 of the four-part DeskDesk tutorial. Part 2 wired the desk and booking schemas. Part 3 makes those bookings appear in every user's Nextcloud Calendar — without writing a controller, an event listener, or any per-app calendar glue.

The trick: OpenRegister already ships an ICalendarProvider (RegisterCalendarProvider) that exposes any schema with a calendarProvider block as a virtual calendar. You declare the block on the booking schema. NC Calendar shows the events. That's the whole story.

This is Part 2 of the four-part DeskDesk tutorial. Part 1 left you with an empty app shell — a chassis, no data. Part 2 fills the chassis: three schemas, a manifest, and the same five Cn* pages drive every list, every detail view, every dashboard with the schema as the single source of truth.

The shape we keep saying "this saves you code" finally has numbers behind it: ~200 lines of hand-rolled Vue collapse to three.

This is Part 1 of a four-part tutorial that builds DeskDesk, a flexible desk-booking app for an open-office environment, on the full Conduction Nextcloud stack. The end product: pick a desk on a floor, book a slot, see your booking in your Nextcloud Calendar, and surface zone-specific knowledge articles from xWiki right next to the booking. Every piece reuses what @conduction/nextcloud-vue and OpenRegister already give you for free.

In Part 1 you scaffold the app, rename it, build it, and see the canonical app chassis on screen. No data, no integrations yet. We get the bones right first.

A 30-minute tutorial that takes you from a fresh Nextcloud install to a published app. Placeholder while we draft the full version.