October 31, 2008
As you may know last month I built the beginnings of a ColdFusion based facade for making using the Connect XML APIs simpler to use via ColdFusion. Since building the initial facade I haven’t managed to progress the core CFC a great deal, but this month I decided to focus on demonstrating how using the ConnectFacade.cfc to quickly bring Connect based content into their own flex based applications.
Here is a very simple example of using the Flex datagrid control and binding that to the ConnectFacade.cfc as a RemoteObject. This is a step towards the end goal of taking Connect content offline using LiveCycle Data Services
Here is the code sample
And the resulting Flex application
You can download the MXML code <a href="Download file“>here..
Let me know if you have any questions. Next month I’ll migrate to using LiveCycle Data Services to access the Connect content.
Earlier this week I attended the Masie Learning 2008 conference in Orlando, Florida. Along with just over 1800 other learning professionals across all manner of industries, I did my best to both soak up and contribute to the wealth of knowledge, rich in this community of people passionate about learning. I believe this annual conference is beneficial to the learning professional who resides in the spectrum between the pure HR performance management role, and a technical learning systems or content implementation role.
My own personal takeaways from attendance and participation as a session presenter are these:
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October 21, 2008
Connect Pro 7 Service Pack 1 will be made generally available to Connect Pro customers in all supported languages on November 7, 2008. The service pack includes many key bug fixes across all Connect Pro application modules including Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting, Training, Events, Server, and Presenter.
The service pack also includes a number of enhancements such as:
• Accessibility
1. Menu navigation: Use arrow keys to navigate the menu within your meeting room.
2. Keyboard shortcuts: Use chording to control key meeting functions.
3. Tab navigation: Cycle through pods and options with the tab button.
4. Color customization: Set a custom color to highlight pods within your meeting room.
• Two New Languages—Russian and Turkish
• Extended Overage Capabilities—hosted customers can purchase packs of 5,000 prepaid overage minutes to increase the capacity of their meetings up to five times their purchased capacity.* Overage minutes can now be applied to Named Organizer meetings, in addition to Concurrent User meetings.
• Expanded Reporting Capabilities—hosted customers will now have access to a far richer reporting environment with a new easy-to-use report building interface.
View this on demand presentation for details about what you’ll find when SP1 becomes available in early November.
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October 17, 2008
Let your voice be heard by voting for Elearning! Magazine’s Best of 2008 Awards. If you’re a fan of Connect Pro, Adobe Presenter, and Captivate, you can let the whole world know by choosing us in these categories:
Best Virtual Classroom Solution
Best Webinar Solution
Best Presentation Tool
Best Simulation Tool
Best Assessment Tool
Voting closes on November 1, 2008.
October 14, 2008
We have just launched the Connect Pro Best Practices User Group open to all users of the product around the world. The Connect Pro Best Practices User Group was created by Adobe as a way to facilitate the sharing of product usage and implementation information to help the user community to maximize their product knowledge and ensure their Connect Pro implementation is a success.
Our inaugural meeting will be held via Connect Pro on October 30, 2008 at 12 PM Pacific where Eric Lerner of Adobe will be presenting on: Lessons Learned – Rolling out Connect Pro Meeting at Adobe
To learn more or to join the Best Practices User Group visit: http://www.connectusers.com/groups/bestpractices/
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October 9, 2008
Alistair from our team recently posted a new Connect Pro meeting room asset: a flash-based MP3 player that will automatically stream music to all participants.
While a host can upload an MP3 file to a Connect Pro meeting room without the need for a player, that music is synchronized. This means that individual participants have no control over that music.
This flash-based music player streams MP3 files to each individual participant. This gives everybody the ability to pause the song, mute the sound or even change the track. The tracks that he’s added are all royalty free – which means you won’t be hearing any of your favorite music. An XML file accompanies the SWF where you can add or change as many music tracks as you’d like. Simply open the XML file in a text editor and add some pointers to MP3 files that you’ve uploaded to a Connect server.
The MP3 Player is available on the Connect Pro Exchange.
