Forum integration with Teamraiser event

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Kate Foote
Kate Foote ✭
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Hi everyone, 


I'm just wondering if anyone might have dabbled with this idea at all. We have a large-scale province-wide peer to peer event that is essentially a month-long workout challenge. Because we're a provincial organization, a lot of the feedback we recevied this year was around supporters in smaller communities feeling a bit left out, as the majority of the classes and events were held in the major centers. For next year's event, I'd like to help foster a sense of community for supporters out in the more far-flung areas by including a forum feature, where groups can connect online, and even in person, if they so choose.


Has anyone out there tried to integrate a forum with a Teamrasier site? Our event site is currently built out on Pagebuilder, and I know that there are a number of 'widgets' that can be used to add a forum, but the main hitch is that I'd like for participants to be able to use the same login to access the forum as their participant center. I'm curious if there is anything that can be done with tokens/APIs to make this possible. 


If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!
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  • Brian Mucha
    Brian Mucha ✭
    Ancient Membership Facilitator 4 Name Dropper Photogenic
    Luminate has a Single Sign-On API, so it is possible. I think you could do SSO with Disqus. Not a simple project, I bet.


    Using Facebook is an option of course. We use a social media widget from Zoomph! to embed the posts into a page on the event site. Here's an example of that live-feed widget (which you can stick into an iframe on your site.) You can create them to only show posts with certain tags, etc. https://visuals.zoomph.com/Visuals/?id=EvCnaTHKIo89gN40p_0aPzw_2_2


    You could also get closer to your single sign on requirement if you impliment Open Authentication with Janrain in Teamraiser. Login with Facebook, forum on Facebook. 


    Small World Labs has a big package that integrates with Teamraiser. Probably overkill, but I think they have a forum as part of their package. 
  • Daniel Hartanto
    Daniel Hartanto ✭
    Ancient Membership Facilitator 2 Name Dropper Photogenic
    Here's something I've been playing around for our ongoing project to let user login and or register an account with our Luminate Online site from an external site.

    https://codepen.io/adadeveloper/full/wevMeG


    The external site (in this case codepen) host iframe that holds an actual pagebuilder consisting of login, loginTest, registration survey API that basically communicates back to its parent page through the use of HTML5 postMessage features for any trigger events such as new registration, login, logout, session timeout (20 min inteval check).


    regards,

    Daniel

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