Module 5: Additional Resources and Summary V1.0

Estimated time to complete this lesson: 5 minutes

Additional Resources

Additional resources to learn more about how to use MashupHub can be found here:

MashupHub User and Administration Guide

• Available as a hard copy book when you install MashupHub.

MashupHub On-line Help

• Available from any screen of MashupHub. The link appears in the upper right-hand corner.
  
  

MashupHub Feed Mashup Builder Help

• Available from the action bar of the Feed Mashup Builder. The button appears in the upper right-hand corner.
  
  
• Contains information about how to create a feed mashup and an explanation of each feed mashup builder operator.

MashupHub Feed Mashup Builder Operator Help

• Available from the Details window for each operator in the Feed Mashup Builder. Click the question mark (?) in the upper right-hand corner of the window to launch the operator help.
  
  
• Contains detailed usage information about the particular operator.

MashupHub Examples

• Available from the home tab of MashupHub under the Getting Started section.
  
  
• Contains detailed information with step-by-step instructions on how to create different feed types and feed mashups.
  The feed mashup examples show how to use each of the feed mashup builder operators in a feed mashup.
  Finished examples of the feed and feed mashups are installed in the MashupHub catalog.

Tutorials

• Available from the Home tab of MashupHub under the Getting Started section.
• MashupHub Tutorial.
  This tutorial is available on-line when MashupHub is installed.
• Creating an IMS feed tutorial.
  This tutorial is available on-line when MashupHub is installed.
• Introduction to creating mashups using IBM Mashup Center tutorial.
  This tutorial is an excellent resource to learn more about using MashupHub and Lotus Mashups to build applications. This tutorial is available on this wiki.

Summary

In this tutorial you have learned:

MashupHub Basics

• MashupHub terminology, including the terms catalog, feed, feed mashup, tag and comment
• How to view, tag, comment, and rate MashupHub objects
• How to participate as a MashupHub community member

Feed Creation

• How to create a feed using an Excel worksheet as the data source
• How to create a feed using a relational database query as the data source

Feed Mashup Creation

• How to launch the feed mashup builder
• How to place operators on the feed mashup builder canvas
• How to use the correct operators to produce the desired output
• The thought process to use and steps to take when creating a feed mashup
• How to apply the steps learned when creating a feed mashup
• How to use the Group, Filter, For Each, Sort, Merge and Transform operators when creating a feed mashup

How to use MashupHub Objects in Lotus Mashups

• Adding an RSS MashupHub feed mashup to Lotus Mashups
• Adding an Atom MashupHub feed mashup to Lotus Mashups

Where to look for Additional Resources

Congratulations !

MashupHub Tutorial - Table of Contents:

Welcome to MashupHub V1.0
Module 1: Introduction to MashupHub V1.0 Module 2: Creating Feeds V1.0
Module 3: Creating Feed Mashups V1.0
Module 4: Using MashupHub Objects in Lotus Mashups V1.0
Module 5: Additional Resources and Summary V1.0