Flicker - Using an External Web Service API

This application is just another example of how you can use an external web service's API to retrieve and display data.

This one alows the user to search for, and retrive images from Flickr

Installing the Application

1. Follow the instructions in the Installing External Apps section to create a new external application document.

2. Name your application Flickr Search (or any other name you choose)

3. Set the dimensions to

4. Add the names of the groups to which you wish the application to be made available.

5. Grant the application the same permissions as the user.

6. Click the image at the right to open it in a new window, then save as icon.png and attach it to the form

7. Open this page and copy the html to your clipboard.

     

8. Paste the entire content of your clipboard into the body of your external application document and save.

Note:  Even though this application uses JQuery, we DO NOT load the jquery library in the html page as it is already loaded by the web client and your application has access to it.  You only need to load the jquery library if your application is running in an iFrame and requires it.