I have an android application that I would like to get feedback from users. I found Qualtrics to be a great service to do this. I have never implemented any survey's with in my applications. I would like a pop up at the end of the application to ask the user if he/she would like to take the survey.
Is there any tutorials on using Qualtrics web services or examples?
You don't really need a web service. A Qualtrics survey is just a web link so just open the survey link in Chrome. You can pass parameters from the app to the survey in the url. Just define the parameter names in the Qualtrics survey flow and they will be included in the response data.
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I want to write an app for BigCommerce.
On the BigCommerce developer website, it says
"Before you begin, you’ll need a sandbox store. BigCommerce offers app developers free sandbox stores through its Technology Partner Program. To get your sandbox store, apply to become a BigCommerce Technology Partner. To be approved as a partner, you will need:
A website.
The ability to support users of your app."
I have written code to modify themes using trial stores in the past without being a partner. (That is not what I am trying to do here, I did that in the past. I am trying to write an app, ANY app. I made the statement about modifying themes with a trial store to emphasize the fact that I know that I can do that and I am assuming that the sandbox store has other capabilities like the ability to access the control panel code.) As far as I can see, an app will need to integrate with the control panel code that I cannot see from just having a store. So, I am assuming that the sandbox store issued when approved as a partner will have this capability.
I sent an email to BigCommerce asking about the approval requirements and their reply was this.
“you must prove that you are an application developer. This consists of a website where you showcase the functionality and current companies that are possibly using your app.
If you have issue with the requirement to be approved as a partner you will need to speak with the team that does the approvals. Partnersupport#bigcommerce.com”
This reply came from appstore#bigcommerce.com. Why wasn't my email forwarded to Partnersupport#bigcommerce.com to begin with so I could get a more comprehensive answer? I did forward it to them and I am still waiting for an answer.
I am confused about this requirement.
I want to write a BigCommerce app. Are they saying that I cannot write a BigCommerce app unless I have written a BigCommerce app before? Are they saying that I have to have written other apps in general? If I write a great app, why would it matter if it is my first?
After I write the app, I can set up a webpage for it and submit it for approval.
How can I "showcase the functionality and current companies that are possibly using your(my) app" when it is an app specifically written for BigCommerce?
I cannot write the app unless I understand how to integrate it with BigCommerce.
As far as I can see, I cannot understand how to integrate it with BigCommerce unless I am a partner.
Am I missing something here?
Is there some other way to approach this?
Sr Marketplace Mgr for BigCommerce here. I think there are a few items of clarification I can offer:
You do not have to have an existing BigCommerce app to be approved for a partnership. You do however need some evidence of your existing work. If you don't have a portfolio, website, or other examples of your development work, it's difficult for our Partners team to determine if you're a qualified developer.
Partner apps will not have access to modify the BC control panel or core code. Apps must use our public APIs to work with a BC user's data or settings. Any settings that are in the CP but not in our APIs can't be modified directly via an app.
Any storefront changes - such as an edit to a BC theme to display weight in two different units - would have to be done using HTML/CSS/JS in the theme itself. We don't have an API for programmatically changing a storefront theme at this time.
If any of your questions for BigCommerce involve your app or app development, you'll need to direct them to my team at appstore#bigcommerce.com. Directing questions regarding your app to partnersupport#bigcommerce.com will be forwarded to my team. That channel is primarily for questions around the Partners program in general, and won't be able to provide detailed support on the app developer program.
Hopefully this clears up some of your confusion, please reach out to me at appstore#bigcommerce.com and I'll be happy to respond myself if you need more info.
Cheers - John
I need to submit a survey response from my own mobile app. The user will be shown a survey to fill for which i can pull the survey questions and answer choices using the get_survey_details api call but how do I submit the response to survey monkey? I dont see a submit_survey type api call anywhere. I this API is available on certain plan I can arrange for that plan but I just need to know before I pay for a plan and later find that I cannot submit response from my mobile app.
I looked here: https://developer.surveymonkey.com/api_console
And in the documentation: https://developer.surveymonkey.com/mashery/requests_responses
P.S. I'm planning to use the platinum plan as it allows me to send custom variables to the survey which I will use later for analytics.
If you haven't seen it already, API V3 is released. See the docs on responses: https://developer.surveymonkey.com/api/v3/#survey-responses
Nigel is correct. API V2 does not provide way to submit responses. A new version of the API is in the works, and will provide additional functionality. Updates will be posted at https://developer.surveymonkey.com/.
My client has specified an app that has their Survey Monkey surveys embedded so that app users (Members) can be notified of new surveys and answer surveys all within their iOS or Android app.
As I look at the problem, I need API methods to be able to:
View the surveys available to Members and their completion status
Get the questions from the Survey and present them for entry
Submit the answers entered from the Survey
Will this functionality be available in API V3? What is the timeframe for this new API? The app has other means of notifying the users, so potentially we can do that in the interim and direct them to web pages to complete the survey, but ultimately we want it all within the app.
I've googles about it, yet couldn't understand it properly.. Not sure if it's a library or intra-server communicator..
Can someone explain me in a high-level /low-level what is meant by an API.??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
Read it from here , will hopefully clear most of your doubts.
An API stands for Application Programming Interface, which means using and existing program or code and accessing it with your code.
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Example, Search Engine:
Search engine 1: offers search and api (if you want this can be google)
Search engine 2: uses googles api to get results (this is your one)
To get results you basically search the other search engine and get their results to yours
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An API can be used in many ways, to access others data or code, ect
An in-depth explination can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
An application-programming interface (API) is a set of programming instructions and standards for accessing a Web-based software application or Web tool. A software company releases its API to the public so that other software developers can design products that are powered by its service.
For example, Amazon.com released its API so that Web site developers could more easily access Amazon's product information. Using the Amazon API, a third party Web site can post direct links to Amazon products with updated prices and an option to "buy now."
An API is a software-to-software interface, not a user interface. With APIs, applications talk to each other without any user knowledge or intervention. When you buy movie tickets online and enter your credit card information, the movie ticket Web site uses an API to send your credit card information to a remote application that verifies whether your information is correct. Once payment is confirmed, the remote application sends a response back to the movie ticket Web site saying it's OK to issue the tickets.
As a user, you only see one interface -- the movie ticket Web site -- but behind the scenes, many applications are working together using APIs. This type of integration is called seamless, since the user never notices when software functions are handed from one application to another.
This article shows an example
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/127316/Integrate-FB-javascript-API-to-your-asp-net-app-to
Twitter offers 'web intents' that are an alternative to OAuth access to their API. Basically, this provides a less feature rich experience, but can still be quite handy. User clicks on 3rd parts websites can create popup windows that check whether the user is logged in to twitter and if they are, allows them to us some Twitter features such as tweeting, retweeting, or following users.
My question is, how could I go about implementing an API like this? Are there tutorials or libraries? I'm not sure what technologie(s) power web intents or where I should start searching.
Thanks.
You can read more about web intents at webintents.org and read the W3C's draft spec. As far as I know, web intents are still somewhat of a new beast on the web and they have not been standardized.
Still, you may want to read this blog which contains a few examples of registering web intents and check out Paul Kinlan's git repo https://github.com/PaulKinlan/WebIntents
Hope that helps you get started.
how would I integrate Facebook into my Mac Application. I could give Objective-C a bit of a go, but it's going to be in an AppleScript-Objective-C project.
I could.. update the user's status a bit better instead of just opening their web browser and pointing them to "Facebook.com" , I could make my own interface that interacts with Facebook.
Any ideas?
You can interact with the Facebook API in many different ways, including submitting status updates as a POST request to the graph api. Their examples aren't at all language-specific. They demonstrate how to interact with it using curl on the command line, for instance.
Docs are here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/
EDIT: Laziness IS one of the Three Virtues of the Programmer, but dude.... Clicking a link is too hard? Well, okay:
Here's how you authenticate your applications and get added as an application for a user:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/desktop
Then here's how to work the Graph api. The section you want is "Publishing" most of the way down the page:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api/