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JotSpot Developer Documentation

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1. Get the Big Picture -- New Developers START HERE

1 Overview

2 Data Model & API Intro (Watch Video)

3 Structuring Data w/Properties & Forms

4 Presenting Your Data

5 Using Xpath Expressions

2. Get Hands On

Build your first Jot Application (Watch Video)

Build your first Jot Plugin

Build your first Jot Theme

3. Get Broader and Better

	Structuring a New Application Introduces the pages used in a typical Jot app, discusses best practices for developing applications, and shows you how you can make your app easily customizable.		Choosing an Embedding & Edit Mode Compares the JotScript, sever-side Javascript, and REST methods of accessing JotLib functionality and discusses the differences you'll encounter when using the script markup and XML edit modes.
	Debugging Provides tips for debugging your Jot code.		Applying Different Forms to Control the Presentation Shows you how to use a form as a mask that selects which page properties are visible.
	Search for Your Data using Queries with Filters Shows you how to define filters with XPath expressions to narrow your searches.		Create Pivot and Filtered Search Pages Search for one or more properties at once to get better search results.
	Displaying Page Properties in Tables Shows you how to present your data in a table view using the table function.		Building a Calendar Shows you how to present data in a calendar view using the calendar function.
	Edit Pages Offline and Push them to your Wiki (Watch Video) Jot Tools is a set of Ant tasks that allows you to edit wiki pages on your file system and then pacakge and upload them with a single click.		Charting and Graphing Wiki Data Shows you how to use charts and graphs to display wiki data graphically.
	Responding to Events by Sending an Email Shows you how to use listen for events and send an email when a trigger condition is met. Helps build email workflows.		Producing and Consuming RSS feeds Shows you how to publish page changes with an RSS feed and incorporate RSS feeds from other sites into your wiki pages.
	Creating Images with SVG Shows you how to create SVG images that can be added to your wiki pages.		Using Server-Side Javascript in JotSpot Describes how to use server-side Javascript (SSJS) to program Jot.
	Controlling Access to Pages & Page Content Describes the Jot permissions model and shows you how to restrict access to particular users or groups.		Create new Page Types for your wiki Turn a form into a page type, making it easy for end-users to use your code
	Creating and Updating Pages via REST Shows you how to access and modify wiki content with the savePage and saveForm functions.

4. Go Even Further

• Creating a Simple Contact Manager Application
• Including Data From Other Websites
• Get Modular: Include Other Wiki Pages
• Change your Look and Feel with CSS
• Import and Export Wiki Pages using Zip Files
• Saving State Between Pages in Jotspot
• ReportingTutorial
• Modifying Existing Applications

Video Tutorials

• Introduction to the JotSpot data model and API
• Edit your wiki with your favorite IDE or text editor
• Building MyTasksApp
• Simple Forms: Building a Simple Contact Manager
• Simple Forms: Building a Daily Calls Log

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