Teaching how to run ICS APIs from a DevOps perspective

In this blog I am going to show you how to interact with ICS system APIs, in order to simplify the deployment of ICS Integrations being stored and retrieved out of version control repositories (e.g. Git). This can be applied as a Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery task, removing with this, manual interventions to export, import, configure connectors, activate integrations, run tests, etc.

I am going to be running these APIs via CURL commands and JSON objects, so that these commands can be easily ported into shell scripts, perhaps part of a CI/CD step using Hudson or Jenkins, for example.

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Teaching how to integrate with Twilio APIs

In this section we are going to build a simple REST API that calls a “Programmable Voice call and SMS” via using Twilio APIs.

This example is based in one of the samples provided by Twilio (see below).

Original Calling clicktocall-node NodeJS project.

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Teaching how to create an Orchestration in ICS

This section shows you how to use ICS to create an orchestration across multiple service-endpoints. For this, we are going to existing REST APIs for:

  • Post a message to Facebook
  • Post a message update to LinkedIn
  • Updates a Campaign description in Salesforce
  • Creates an event in Google Calendar

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Teaching how to integrate Google Calendar with ICS

This section shows you how to use the Google Calendar ICS Connector that comes out of the box.

Obtain your Google Calendar Connector in ICS

In order to create a Google Calendar Connector you need to get the client id and client secret of the Google Calendar Account you want to connect to. For this:

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Teaching how to integrate LinkedIn with ICS

This section shows you how to use the LinkedIn ICS Connector that comes out of the box.

Obtain your LinkedIn Connector in ICS

In order to create a LinkedIn Connector you need to get the client id and client secret of the LinkedIn Account you want to connect to. For this:

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Teaching how to integrate Salesforce with ICS

This section shows you how to use the Salesforce ICS Connector that comes out of the box.

Configure your Salesforce Connector in ICS

First of all, in order to create a Salesforce Connector for this we need the Salesforce Enterprise WSDL. This will require you to create an Application within your LinkedIn account and use the “Application ID” and “Application Secret”. Follow the next steps to do this:

Perform the following steps to generate the WSDL file:

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Teaching how to integrate Facebook with ICS

This section shows you how to use the Facebook ICS Connector that comes out of the box.

Configure your Facebook Connector in ICS

First of all, in order to create a Facebook Connector we are going to use OAUTH2 to authenticate. This will require you to create an Application within your Facebook account and use the “Application ID” and “Application Secret”. Follow the next steps to do this:

  • Login to the Facebook Developer portal at http://developer.facebook.com/
  • Once logged in, on the top right corner, click on “My Apps” drop down menu and select “Add a New App”

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