Event Description

More details: https://joomlausersnj.com/meetings/custom-fields-and-external-data-sources

register: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrfu-qqTMoHNDo0H7r04O5DNQMketZbPBx

Guest Speaker:
Marc Dechèvre - marc@woluweb.be

Description:
Joomla 4 Beta was released on 30 May 2020 and I am happy to see that this causes much excitement and many interesting discussions in the Joomla Community.

Amongst the new major feature we have :

The new media manager, which will be obviously useful to all users, The workflow, which will be useful in many cases, And Webservices, which is more a developer thing but really open new possibilities. This will indeed allow for example to use your Joomla website as a source for other websites/apps/…

So in this context of Webservices I was thinking : what about using Joomla Custom Fields to synchronise data from other sources (like open-data in json format for example) ?

• So instead of having Joomla feeding other websites/apps/… like we will be able to do with J!4, we can already easily feed J!3 from external sources.
• Thanks to the Joomla friends on https://forum.joomla.fr we quickly came up with a simple plugin, very light and very easy to edit/customise.
• To have a preview of how to synchronise your Custom Fields with an external source on a multilingual Joomla website, you can already see https://sync.joomlacustomfields.org/fr/