Build a Nextcloud app on the Conduction stack — Part 4: Knowledge + ship
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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.