Citrix Developer Solutions Podcast

What is the path forward for this podcast? As you may have guessed by the new name - we are going to be covering development and client-delivery across all the latest SaaS product offerings from Citrix (as well as any non-SaaS Citrix products that you should be knowledgeable about). I promised it won’t just be me talking the whole time. As in the past, this podcast is also not a self-promotional one. We are going to be delivering value directly to your ears with technical topics, innovative use cases, and discussion with engaging guests.  

Our main topics will be centered around all the latest in Citrix SaaS-based offerings. There will be many episodes dedicated to Podio (it still will be a HUGE part of the podcast), Workspace with Intelligence, Wrike, and ShareFile/RightSignature. We’ll also be touching on the most popular integrations that all of our clients desire: Office 365, Google GSuite, SAP, Salesforce, and other popular SaaS software that all of our clients desire to integrate.

We are also going to be taking brief glimpses into Citrix’s classic non-SaaS offerings but will stick mostly with virtualization product families. In the category of topics will be CVAD, ADC/SD-WAN, and Citrix Analytics will also making the show at some point. These are wonderful additions to any Citrix Development practice. Technical topics will be around designs in the no-code/low-code interfaces, JavaScript and PHP examples for Podio Workflow Automation use cases, and a little bit on APIs and how to utilize them in several of the Citrix products.

Business topics and customer use cases will be sprinkled in throughout the season. The Podio community has been solving our client’s workflow conundrums and also designing the sometimes outrageous automation desire for years. We’ll discuss our journey of how we brought our non-Citrix integrations to the Citrix Ready marketplace and how you can too. We’ll share our process on what it’s like to compete in Citrix Hackathons and why you should rise to the challenge too. 

You’re going to be hearing from the talent of the Brick Bridge Consulting Team about all these topics and our successes and obstacles, past and present. We’ll be bringing on others from the Citrix Developer community - familiar names and new ones - to talk shop about their overall experiences with delivering Citrix solutions. We also plan to have a few select vendors and ecosystem resources on to give an inside look at how their services can help grow your business without being a total sales pitch. Lastly, we want YOU to be on the podcast - through your messages, issues, topics, or whatever you can throw at us. 

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• Introduction of Brick Bridge Team Members
• What is Everyone Working On?
  • John: SaaSsafras & AWS Lambda
  • Adam: UI/UX Design
  • Emily: C# & AWS Lambdas
  • Caleb: How Brick Bridge has changed over the years
• What does our staff want to see changed about Podio?
• Sign off till next season

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We're revisiting our first podcast about Podio as a Product to give you updates on how the community has changed in the past six months since. We talk about:

• How the community views Podio as an Operations Platform Product
• Integrations
• Mass Customization of Podio Products
• SaaSsafras as it relates to development and product copies
• Globiflow Updates
• Free tier users and how to give users a taste of your Podio Product4

Stay tuned for our season finale!

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1. Gap 1: Long Globiflows https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360047949172-Globiflow-Race-Conditions-Long-Flows-Subroutines
   1. Rethink how everything is designed, simplicity is key
   2. Workaround using logic
2. Gap 2: Lookup Across Apps: https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360047573431-Lookup-across-apps
   1. Workaround using Views
   2. Workaround using Calculation Fields

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1. Gap 1: HIPAA Compliance: https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360046435891-HIPAA-Compliance-Update
   1. Background/History on HIPAA & Podio
   2. What are your options using Citrix and complying?
2. Gap 2: 'Add Another' for Date Field: https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360045383451--Add-Another-for-Date-Field
   1. How can you add multiple dates/times that are not just recurring for one event?
   2. Customized build-out vs Globiflow
3. Gap 3: Email Campaigns: https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360045181431-Email-Campaign
   1. Different types of email campaings require different approaches
   2. Integrations and compliances with email campaigns
4. Gap 4: Create Report with Text Field & Number Field: https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360047738251-Create-report-of-a-number-field-per-text-field
   1. Workaround using relationship fields
   2. Workaround using globiflows.

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• Intro: Welcome and Subscribe! Do you have Podio Gaps?
• What are some industries where there are or can be Podio Products?
  • Professions: healthcare, finance, law
  • Trades: plumbers, electricians, etc.
  • Retail & ECommerce
  • Manufacturing/Construction/Inventory
  • Coaching/Consulting
  • Marketing/Creatives
  • Education, ex2
  • Non-Profits, ex2
  • Odd One-Off Finds: rehab, music
• Outro: Thank you and SUBSCRIBE!

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Discussion Outline:

1. Introduction – SUBSCRIBE (do it!)
2. Teaser: Stay tuned for next week's episode for some industry information about Podio's users.
3. What are the REI industry characteristics that make it ideal for Podio?
   1. Lead Sales and cold calls are perfect for automated workflows
   2. Non-technical data is easy to store in Podio
   3. Non-expert, easily trainable employees
4. What are the Podio characteristics that make it ideal for REI?
   1. Flexibility in Podio's management system for how you run your business and follow regulations
   2. Podio takes care of your massive amount of time-consuming paperwork
   3. Live editing from around the world at the same time
5. Outro: SUBSCRIBE and Thank you.

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This podcast is about the design and development on the Citrix Podio Platform. 

1. Creating an OR filter: https://bit.ly/2wNjW05
2. Adding a descriptive line of text in an app form: https://bit.ly/2EUzX8L
3. Copying field data between apps: https://bit.ly/2WO9PGK
4. Exporting data as CVS without including all the data within each item: https://bit.ly/2Ik2Yvw
5. Correcting the alphabet order for other languages: https://bit.ly/31aw350
6. Email to App- Assigning podio users to items: https://bit.ly/2wCZZIW

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PODCAST NOTES:

1. Revisit a simple Podio + AWS Example that we mentioned before
2. We’re releasing the code with some instructions to try it out for yourself
3. This isn’t meant to be production code, but you could build a reliable system with some additional investment
4. To review: we use a node.js 8.10 function running in AWS Lambda that responds to an API Gateway trigger
5. The trigger has a unique URL which can be used to add a hook to a single Podio application
6. You need an AWS account, a Podio API Key (Client Id & Secret)
7. We just use this example to comment on a new item, but it could do all sorts of things
8. There are a few challenges to consider when using app authentication
   1.    the token is set per application
   2.    hooks can be deleted separately, but this app stores them per function
   3.    tracking usage and access could be tricky in complicated scenarios
9. We will release an OAuth2  version of this at some point which addresses some of these issues… and introduces others

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1. The marketing for software is more important than anything else because a consumer needs to know what they are buying and what the functions are within it. 
2. How are you going to sell your product? 
3. Establishing strong credibility over the internet is difficult because in some cases you will never see your client.
4. Supporting your client pre and post purchase
5. Website tips and tricks 
6. Take an extra step to establish yourself and your company in a community
7. Having a demo video will help promote your product more. 

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