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Build a Nextcloud app on the Conduction stack — Part 6: Integrate

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Conduction
Open-source workspace stack

This is Part 6 of the nine-part app-building tutorial series. Part 4 packaged the app and put it on the Conduction store; this part makes it talk to the rest of the workspace: three integration patterns layered from least to most invasive. By the end your orders know who their supplier is, every order shows the right care guide from xWiki, and a needs_followup order automatically opens a maintenance page in xWiki that flips the order back to delivered when the page is marked resolved.

Parts 5 and 6 are parallel

Both build directly on the shipped app from Part 4. Part 5: Advanced manifest features deepens the manifest surface (actionToggles, fieldWidgets, public-mode pages). Part 6 widens to other systems. Take them in either order, or pick whichever your next app actually needs first. Neither references the other for content.

The point isn't the specific integrations, it's the pattern. Cross-register reads are how Conduction apps share data without coupling. The OpenConnector source-and-synchronisation pattern is how you absorb data from anywhere into your own register. The webhook endpoint pattern is how external systems push state back. Once you've wired all three, you've covered the integration vocabulary the rest of the catalogue uses.

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

· 16 min read
Conduction
Open-source workspace stack

Part 4 of the nine-part app-building tutorial series. Part 3 made orders appear in NC Calendar with one schema annotation. Part 4 brings external knowledge, category-specific care advice, husbandry notes, feeding tips, from xWiki into the pet detail sidebar via a care_guide 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.