Hi Peter I think one thing with Shindig is that it supports the Open Social spec but is not itself a portal. UserPrefs would be something that each different container is going to have to implement in it's own way. I think the reason there is so little documentation is that they are all busy writing the code. The [email protected] mailing list is where they all hang out - and they are quite helpful. I have to offer a disclaimer - I am definitely a user not a developer of Shindig. For learning - we used iGoogle a lot. I think it's based on Shindig so it's a good site to copy. You can look at the url strings, examine the XHR requests in Firebug etc and it helps a lot. Partuza helped. Once you understand the basics of the container, how JS files are loaded into the gadgets with a Require statement or into the web page with that gadgets/js:feature:feature syntax which I mentioned yesterday and the different services you are well on the way. I found some of the examples for gadgets I've used in developer sites on Ning etc. You do just have to hunt around for info. (I agree it's a pain). regards Justin
> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:31:28 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: userPrefs is undefined / getting UserPreferences to work > > Hey Justin, > > Thank you very much for your comprehensive answer - I'm using the JAVA > version of Shindig, but I think you nevertheless pointed me into the > right direction. I will have look at Partuzza and get back to you (the > mailing-list) as soon as I (don't) get things figured out. > > BTW - how come that there is so little documentation on these things? As > a absolute newbie to shindig, I was of course looking at the samples > which you were also referring to in your last post. However, the samples > concerning the "set_prefs" feature don't seem to work for me "out of the > box" which I normally would expect from "samples". Don't get me wrong - > I think the work and effort that you people put into shindig is really > cool! It's just a real bummer that it's so hard to actually learn how to > use shindig (which I would love to). Or am I just missing the "well > known howto #1"? > > -Peter
