Social and Help popups

Status 1/29/15

• sign-in library done
• To do:
  • create generic popup window widget
  • create simple text-display widget
  • create social-media widget

Requirements summary

• Opens a mid-screen display box
  • Display box is fixed in position and size, but is not truly modal: it doesn't block activity on the app behind it
• Social displays a heading, a row of social media buttons, and a button to close the display
  • A button is displayed if its service is permitted by configuration and it is available (query to social library)
• Help displays configured help text, with vertical scrollbar for overflow, and a button to close the display
• Clicking on a social medium button calls the signIn function for that medium; the social media site handles the actual login
  • A cancel or failed return from the social media site returns the user to the social-media display box
  • A successful return from the social media site closes the social-media display box and calls back into the app with the user information returned from the social library
• Isolates social-media connections in a library for maintainability

Configuration items

• help text
• Facebook
  • permission to offer
  • app id
  • user scope
• Google+
  • permission to offer
  • client id
  • user scope
• Twitter
  • permission to offer
  • sign-in URL
  • user info URL
  • callback page

I18N items

• social display heading
• close button tooltip (& label if a text button)

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