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It’s been a while since I sat down and wrote anything. #JoelKallmanDay and the #APEX community was worth finding a spare moment and focus on.
The current action (that is in development) for some of our experiences that are share #DrivenByData #PlayWithSeriousIntent that you might have seen at a few different events. I’ve explored the space of introducing QR codes into the experience. There are a few different ways that we are looking at it.
What I found was (and I knew existed), was a massive community of APEX developers that share and one of those ways is through APEX plug-ins and packaged code. Here are a sample of the ones that I’ve explored further. this diagram may not makes sense, but we explored the how we can simplify the whole experience for everyone.
The first one was for a simple self-registration form for the experience. This is not just a link to a website but also needs the context of which leaderboard, which event. Refer to this one by Jan Navratil …
https://github.com/navratil/apex-qr-plugin
The next one that I explored was more from the scanning perspective. “How might I use a QR code that was generated. This is where I found Ronny Weiss and this QR Code Scanner.
https://github.com/RonnyWeiss/APEX-QR-Code-Scanner
This was fine and then we looked at ways people might save the QR code that we can scan. Stuart Coggins (who I’m working with on this) was working on Email in APEX so adding the QR code to as email generated content. As this is all dynamic, then adding the image as an embedded image in the HTML made sense (at least to me). Hence, this is where I found this by Zoran Tica …
https://github.com/zorantica/plsql-qr-code
There are a few different other ways of working with QR Codes with APEX – Stuart started with pure javascript libraries and working in with that lens.
Continue to check the out these resources to find more APEX plugins:
or even just on github which was where I started this.
As I mentioned, this has been a time that I haven’t able to sit and write much. And watching the time, and the space to do the things that are important. I will leave this here and build this out. I just wanted to share this on #JoelKallmanDay (whilst the Oct 11th exists somewhere in the world).
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