Building your own add-ons

If you have an internal or external system that you want to use to share information with Jive, then you might consider building your own add-on.

To get started on building add-ons, you can use the following guidelines:

• Read the Jive Platform Developer Introduction at https://developer.jivesoftware.com//.

• Join the Jive Developer Community.

• Create your add-on.

• Bundle your add-on package either using the Jive SDK or manually.

• Upload the add-on to your community and make it visible only to yourself to test it out (Uploading your own add-ons).

• Let the community use your add-on.

• Publish your add-on to the Add-ons Registry.

• Whenever you make new updates to your add-on, publish them to the Add-ons Registry, as described in Pushing updates to Add-ons Registry.

• Uploading your own add-ons You can build your own add-ons to leverage systems in Jive. Once you build the add-on, upload it to Jive by using the Add-ons page.

• Letting community use your add-on Once you have tested the add-on you've produced, you can turn it on in your community.

• Publishing to the Add-ons Registry If you're a registered Jive Developer, you can publish your add-on to the Add-ons Registry. Jive reviews the published add-ons, and, if the review is successful, all Jive communities will be able to install the add-on.

• Pushing updates to Add-ons Registry If you add improvements to your add-on after you publish it, you may want to publish the updates to the Add-ons Registry so other communities can enjoy these changes.

• Retrieving client ID and secret You can retrieve the client ID and secret for your add-on if you lose track of it. Note that access to the ID and secret can compromise your add-on’s security.

• Reviewing active add-on tiles in community You can use the Add-Ons interface to see which tiles from an add-on are being used in your community and manage access to them place by place.