It's been a little over a week....
by cwareham on 10/24/08
.....in beta, and I'm really encouraged by the amount of traffic we're seeing and the interaction starting to happen on the forums.
We have a big, honkin’ list of stuff that we want to do in order to make this site better, and I'd love to hear from the development community on what you guys would most like to see.
Has anyone tried out the "Getting Started" guide?
How's the documentation working for you?
Does green annoy you? If so, too bad, we're pretty unlikely to change that ;^).
Let us know what you think. I've been in product management for a while, and as such my feelings don't get hurt very easily.
One FYI: We’re spinning up an internal contest for Omniture employee-developers to encourage folks to submit code samples, so if you see any traffic about a contest, that’s what’s cooking. We’re planning to have one for the external development community at a later date, so don’t feel left out. And, don’t hesitate to submit your code samples in the meantime; anything you submit today will be valid for the contest when it comes around. As a matter of fact, submitting early may help you solidify your code and give you better standing when the contest comes around.
All the best,
Chris
I tried out the Getting Started guide and thought it was pretty easy to follow until I reached the "Testing the Web Services API" section. I thought the steps there were too vague and could use the PHP sample code inside the section itself- or at least a link to the code so you don't have to go digging for it. Then in the "Authenticating to the Admin API" section I was confused about whether I had to create a nonce and created date with my password and hash and encode it still if I just wanted to use the Reporting API. The PHP sample code shows that you need to so I decided to do the same. Unfortunately, I have to use Java within my organization and I had difficulty sending a nonce and created date within the header. Whether this is needed only for the admin API or all services I'm still unclear on. The documentation pages are very helpful and straightforward. Great site and the web services are fun stuff!
Cool. Thanks much for taking the time to feed back, we'll start working on getting those sections squared away. All the best, Chris
What is the status of the Java section of the documentation? It would be very helpful to consumers and beneficial to OMTR to provide clearer Java documentation.
There doesn't seem to be any documentation for the Javascript API (s_code object). Given that the JS beacon is the primary way to get data into Omniture, it would be great to have a thorough reference here.
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