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Pull from outside DB and input to Telligent community

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garybelvin
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on Mon, Mar 11 2013 6:49 PM

Is it possible to pull data from an outside source and update user accounts in your telligent community accordingly?  For instance... you have an online game.  Player A makes it to level 2.  Is there functionality in place to update the person's telliigent community account with the data you pull from there?  I can't figure out how to get INTO the database.  I see that you can pull from it via the rest API but I don't see where you can put information into and reflect it on the user's account.
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  • Alex Crome
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    on Mon, Mar 11 2013 6:58 PM
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    I'd say you have two approaches available:

    1. The REST API supports updating operations for users, so you could store data in a user profile field in Telligent.
    2. Build your own Widgets & widget Extensions to pull the data directly from your external game..

    As for which option, to choose. The first option is the quicker & simpler of the two, but it is the less flexible in how you display the data. In your case I'd probably recommend the second approach - since your data is already stored in your external game, this method will avoid duplicating your game data between Telligent and your game
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  • Alex Crome
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    on Mon, Mar 11 2013 6:58 PM
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    I'd say you have two approaches available:

    1. The REST API supports updating operations for users, so you could store data in a user profile field in Telligent.
    2. Build your own Widgets & widget Extensions to pull the data directly from your external game..

    As for which option, to choose. The first option is the quicker & simpler of the two, but it is the less flexible in how you display the data. In your case I'd probably recommend the second approach - since your data is already stored in your external game, this method will avoid duplicating your game data between Telligent and your game