Integration with FourSquare API

studiosmaira

I have a customer who is using EasySocial but it's very restrictive in terms of enhancement. I was thinking of JomSocial as an alternative for them. Is it possible to talk to a sales engineer from your side to help validate the solution before I pitch it to the customer?

I need to integrate with the FourSquare API for the following functions

Dynamically search for an organization (using the FourSquare venues api)
Display an organization page (with information pulled in from FourSquare)

Thanks
Sam

teitbite

studiosmaira Hi. Can You please explain it a little bit more? What would be the connection be done for? A comapny should have a profile created in Jomsocial or something like that?

studiosmaira

It would be great if there was a dynamic way of creating JomSocial profiles for a set of organizations from FourSquare (fetched from the API) but I was thinking of a simpler implementation which is described below:

A logged in or public user has a site wide advanced search
The search works on JomSocial profiles and information and also one of FourSquare's API.
If they search for an organization from FourSquare, the organizations page shows up.
I was thinking there could be one page created to serve "a foursquare org" whose details can be dynamically populated from their API.

So a typical flow would be like

User searches for "Abc Ltd".
Search makes a request to FourSquare API and receives a response array that matches all such orgs/companies
They select one from the search drop down
This makes another request to foursquare to get details of that particial org/company.
The user is redirected to a common organization page in JomSocial
But the information on that page changes based on whatever FourSquare returns in point 4.

Does that make sense?

teitbite

studiosmaira Hi. I understand, but I'm afraid it will not work like that out of the box. You will need to hire a developer to extend it to be able to work this way. I'm afraid we do not support such big customizations.

studiosmaira

teitbite I am the developer but before I dive into the code to extend it, I'm trying to understand how far can any out of the box extension capabilities would take me?

teitbite

studiosmaira Hi. I'm not familiar with FourSquare API so I do not know how JS profile would fix it. I believe best would be test it by Yourself https://www.jomsocial.com/demo

But if those field requirements for company versus user profile will be something to accept, than I can see it possible with not long time spending on implementations.