Integrating with SPARK

[george.azrak]

I am very new to Spark so please forgive utter ignorance of Spark capabilities.

I am part of a team considering integrating a web based product with Spark. 

Conceptually speaking, can I expect Spark to be able to capture data from within Spark without having to leave Spark and get into the app we are trying to integrate?  Additionally, I was planning to deliver output of the app as a PDF that can be displayed within Spark.  Should I be considering other ways to deploy App output?

Could any of you help point me to documents that shed light on these issues?

Thanks

[jacoadam]

Hello George!

Thanks for posting. You may want to ask this same question in the spark community, where you'll be connected with Cisco Spark experts: https://communities.cisco.com/community/partner/collaboration/spark

On top of that, spark has very good developer docs, you can start digging here: https://developer.ciscospark.com/

There is a lot you can do with spark, and analyzing what you posted above you probably want to take a look at bots. Bots can send messages, (including attachments, such as PDFs https://developer.ciscospark.com/resource-messages.html) and also read messages within rooms.

Some basic practical knowledge may help. For that, you can check out the Spark Learning Labs:
https://learninglabs.cisco.com/tracks/collab-cloud

Let me know if you've got any quesitons!

Thanks!
Jacob