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BBDEVNETWORK is offline?

John Zack

Hi All - I notices links to BBDEVNetwork don't work anymore. There was a lot of good information/sample code in there. Does anyone know what happened?

Thanks - John

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Joseph Styons

Looks like you are right. On Friday, February 19, 2021, I referenced an old post in a conversation here.

I know it was up at that time. By Monday, February 22, it was down. So it looks like it went down over the weekend.

I hope they bring it back up, even if it does stay in read-only mode.

In the meantime, I had luck finding an article on the wayback machine.

Crystal Bruce‍ can you give us any insight?

Thanks

Joseph Styons

https://www.styonssoftware.com

Crystal Bruce

Joseph Styons:

Looks like you are right. On Friday, February 19, 2021, I referenced an old post in a conversation here.

I know it was up at that time. By Monday, February 22, it was down. So it looks like it went down over the weekend.

I hope they bring it back up, even if it does stay in read-only mode.

In the meantime, I had luck finding an article on the wayback machine.

Crystal Bruce‍ can you give us any insight?

Thanks

Joseph Styons

https://www.styonssoftware.com

I don't have any immediate insight, but I'm happy to ask around!

Crystal Bruce

Joseph Styons:

Looks like you are right. On Friday, February 19, 2021, I referenced an old post in a conversation here.

I know it was up at that time. By Monday, February 22, it was down. So it looks like it went down over the weekend.

I hope they bring it back up, even if it does stay in read-only mode.

In the meantime, I had luck finding an article on the wayback machine.

Crystal Bruce‍ can you give us any insight?

Thanks

Joseph Styons

https://www.styonssoftware.com

It is no longer available, Joseph Styons‍ I did confirm. I'm not sure about the read-only mode, still looking into that!

Joseph Styons

Thanks Crystal.

I know the content there was valuable to the community. It would be really great if it were to be put back online somewhere.

Ray Porter

I'd like to add my voice to calls to make the archived discussions there accessible again in some format. There was a ton of useful stuff there that simply isn't in the new forums.

Ray Porter

Cary Mayeda

I agree that there was a lot of essential content that is not available in the current Blackbaud Community and I think it's important to get that content back online.
Crystal Bruce‍ Any updates?

Yolanda Winston

Is there an ETA on when this will be back? I was looking for an answer I know is there.

David Wanless

I agree. bbdevnetwork had a lot of useful information on it. It'd be good if it was still searchable.

Ciao,

David.

Crystal Bruce

Yes, the team is reviewing options and I should have an update soon!

Cary Mayeda

Thanks Crystal Bruce‍! Much appreciated!

Ray Porter

Crystal,

Any information yet on when the material in the old devnetwork might be available again? I just found a message in the forums with a link to and old devnetwork article on my current issue involving extending collection fields. There's a lot of fairly important information in there so the sooner BB can get it back online the better.

Thanks,

Ray Porter

Jennifer Borri

Is there an update? We really need this resource back ...we're already blocked on some things without it. Thanks!

Crystal Bruce

Lester Porter:

Crystal,

Any information yet on when the material in the old devnetwork might be available again? I just found a message in the forums with a link to and old devnetwork article on my current issue involving extending collection fields. There's a lot of fairly important information in there so the sooner BB can get it back online the better.

Thanks,

Ray Porter

Hi, I do have some information from the team about it. I did email them just now to see if they can respond here about it. Is there anything in particular you are looking for? I can work to get that resource here in the Community!

Crystal Bruce

Jennifer Borri:

Is there an update? We really need this resource back ...we're already blocked on some things without it. Thanks!

Is there a particular resource you need? I can work to see if I can get this added to Community.

Ray Porter

Hi Crystal,

Here's the link Matt Hall provided in an earlier discussion:

https://www.bbdevnetwork.com/blogs/dynamically-adding-fields-collection/

Thanks,

Ray Porter

Ray Porter

Crystal,

I posted the link to the article we need. Do you have an update about when it might be available and generally about when the entire devnetwork stuff might be available again?

Thanks,

Ray Porter

Crystal Bruce

Lester Porter:

Crystal,

I posted the link to the article we need. Do you have an update about when it might be available and generally about when the entire devnetwork stuff might be available again?

Thanks,

Ray Porter

Hi Ray,

Yes, I've asked about that specific blog and if they can post it here in Community. The rest is a bit more complicated as it would involve a migration of content from one platform to this one. I don't have solid answers on that, but I think getting at least the blog mentioned is reasonable. Will update as soon as I hear more!

Crystal Bruce

Update: It looks like it would take a long time to migrate all the content over, so I am now looking at the option of bringing key content pieces over.

What are some key resources you'd like to see here from there?

Let me know asap, I have the blog from @lester porter. What else would be useful?

John Zack

Hello - Do you just need the old links?

Collection Grids and Data Form Add-Ins | Blackbaud Developer Network
Apply window in batch for a pledge payment - Blackbaud Community
Add Form Extension workaround for lack of LoadImplementation? - Blackbaud Community

Here were a few from my bookmarks that I've saved. Basically the ones with the sample code is what I found useful from bbdevnetwork. I also remember the tutorials from Trip Ott and others being especially helpful.

Thanks for getting some of this information back online,

John

Ray Porter

Crystal,

I provided the link to the old article I need earlier in this thread but here it is again. Needless to say that the sooner you guys can figure out how to get the old BBDevNetwork content back online in a searchable format the better.

https://www.bbdevnetwork.com/blogs/dynamically-adding-fields-collection/

Thanks,

Ray

David Hickman

Very disappointed that such a useful resource has been taken down without any notice and with no thought to migrate the content anywhere else. Please can you do all that you can to put this back up ASAP!

I was looking for BBIS information earlier and there are links on your public GitHub repo which no longer work as they link to bbdevnetwork (https://github.com/blackbaud-community/BBIS-Developer-Showcase)

Cary Mayeda

Crystal Bruce:

Update: It looks like it would take a long time to migrate all the content over, so I am now looking at the option of bringing key content pieces over.

What are some key resources you'd like to see here from there?

Let me know asap, I have the blog from @lester porter. What else would be useful?

Crystal,

Thanks for asking about key content pieces. The problem is that the resource was so vast, it's impossible for me to specify specific content. I would always just search for info when needed. This is a loss of a great resource, much of which is not in the BB Community or BB KB.

Crystal Bruce

Hi,

Update from me. I am still working on getting content from the bbdevnetwork in a location that is secure and accessible. Most likely here in Community, but will let you know for sure when I know. Thanks for all your feedback on the specific content you'd like to see!

David Hickman

Hi Crystal,

Some specifics from us that we are trying to look into now but cannot make much progress on as the content has been removed:

https://www.bbdevnetwork.com/blogs/building-a-custom-constituent-map/
http://www.bbdevnetwork.com/blogs/extending-a-custom-ui-model/
http://www.bbdevnetwork.com/blogs/welcome-uimodelers/

If these could be migrated ASAP it would be very useful!

Crystal Bruce

Update to this:

The team was not able to port over old forums from bbdevnetwork.com, but they did put together a txt file with all of the old website's blogs. You can search for key terms using control-F to find information.

Here is the resource for download! https://community.blackbaud.com/reviews/item/5/3623

Shweta Jayaram

Hi Crystal,

I am specifically looking for this blog post in the text file and cannot find anything related. I tried key search words. https://www.bbdevnetwork.com/qa/45434/credit-transactions-enable-display-refund-checkbox-payment

Were not all the blogs moved over into the text file? Any chance I could get info from this post?

Thanks, Shweta!

Ray Porter

Hi Crystal,

I appreciate the team making this text file available. However, I've looked it over and it seems less than optimal. While it may be searchable, it is difficult to read and actually finding anything is very hard. It also seems to be missing the forum posts from the old dev network and much of the useful content was in those posts, not in the blogs (though they're useful too). Is there any chance the team could bring the old dev network back online, possibly in a dedicated, low resource server somewhere? There's just too much useful content there to simply let it go away.

Thanks,

Ray Porter

Crystal Bruce

Lester Porter:

Hi Crystal,

I appreciate the team making this text file available. However, I've looked it over and it seems less than optimal. While it may be searchable, it is difficult to read and actually finding anything is very hard. It also seems to be missing the forum posts from the old dev network and much of the useful content was in those posts, not in the blogs (though they're useful too). Is there any chance the team could bring the old dev network back online, possibly in a dedicated, low resource server somewhere? There's just too much useful content there to simply let it go away.

Thanks,

Ray Porter

Hi Lester Porter‍ - from what I understand, the forums were taken down due to a security issue. The team discussed moving the forums here to Community, but the cost was too high for the migration and it would be a very heavy manual process to bring them over one at a time, so the decision to put the blogs on one big file and upload it here was made. I can continue to discuss options for the forums with the team, but at this time, there has been no decision to bring those back online or migrate them to Community.

Crystal Bruce

Shweta Jayaram:

Hi Crystal,

I am specifically looking for this blog post in the text file and cannot find anything related. I tried key search words. https://www.bbdevnetwork.com/qa/45434/credit-transactions-enable-display-refund-checkbox-payment

Were not all the blogs moved over into the text file? Any chance I could get info from this post?

Thanks, Shweta!

Hi Shweta Jayaram‍ !

All blogs were ported over into the txt file. I can ask specifically about this one with the team. Do you remember if this was a blog or a forum post?

Shweta Jayaram

Hi Crystal,

That would be great! I am not sure. I have a vague memory of it may be being a blog post but I could be wrong. Not sure I recall it well.

Thanks a lot, Shweta!!