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Date

28 Jun 2017

Attendees

Actions items from previous meetings

• All: If your organization is interested in seeing Symphony support DB's Plexus interbank interop framework, tell Jonathan Christensen.
• Lynn Neir (Deactivated), Leslie Spiro, and Former user (Deleted): schedule time before the members meeting to discuss compatibility issues between Container.JS and the Symphony web app.
• Lynn Neir (Deactivated) and All: Review Tick42's proposal for a container API specification, including Leslie's email to the list and Kiril's pull request (especially the TypeScript specification), and comment on the mailing list.
• Former user (Deleted) and Leslie Spiro: follow up with Lynn Neir (Deactivated) to discuss Symphony LLC's strategy regarding Symphony Electron desktop interop/on-behalf-of functionality.
• Lynn Neir (Deactivated): test Container.JS with Symphony Electron if possible
• Lynn Neir (Deactivated): add file download API method (and any other planned methods) to list in Confluence
• Former user (Deleted): revise proposed charter to clarify that group's priority is portability of Symphony to various containers, with portability of other apps being a secondary goal.

Agenda

Meeting notes

[Colin Eberhardt summarized the in-person working group session at the members meeting. He said his Container.JS demo was well-received and helped some members understand better what the software is and what it does.]

[There was a discussion of roadmap of Symphony Electron and whether web app API is accessible in Symphony version 1.46. JC said that he would check in with Lynn Neir on that question.]

Nick: I have a number of customers who use OpenFin and Symphony, so helping them build their own implementations – reference or otherwise – would be great. I’ll look at Container.JS. My main goal is to assess what this looks like from the OpenFin side and working with interested customers build things that suit their needs. I don’t build applications so this would be to facilitate others doing so.

Johan Sandersson: Any thoughts on what Les brought up at MM: are people interested in having ability to check from other desktop apps which Symphony user the user is logged on as?

Nick: Minuet lets you do this today?

Johan Sandersson: If you install the message bus, an extra Java-based API that GS built in, yes.

Jonathan Christensen: What are you asking?

Johan Sandersson: If anyone’s had any further thoughts on this concept of, if one application is logged in to Symphony, other apps could make use of that connection/authentication.

Gareth Davies: I’m guessing they’ve sort of spoofed it on the Symphony bus.

Jonathan Christensen: I’ll look into that. That’s a good question for Paul. What’s the use case?

Johan Sandersson: User installs Symphony wrapper and logs in with SSO. You then run a plugin for Outlook, and when you say “I’m in a meeting,” you can change the Symphony user’s status to “busy.” And since they’re already logged in to Symphony, we can assume the user is authenticated.

Jonathan Christensen: Ok, that makes sense.

Aaron Williamson: Has anybody thought about DB’s Plexus proposal or discussed it internally?

Colin Eberhardt: Maybe bring it up somewhere else?

Nick Kolba: Do we know how Symphony would interact with this?

Aaron Williamson: As I recall from Slava’s presentation, there’s a defined API for apps to communicate to the bus, so Symphony would use that API. For those of you at financial institutions, what would be the best way to run it up the flagpole in your org?

Gareth Davies: Run it by the Symphony product owners, like Ben Dweck.

Brian Ingenito: I saw the demo, and it was very compelling. Me, Aaron, and Dov are the right people. I guess we just need more information.

Aaron Williamson: Ok. Well I’ll reach out to try to set up some 1:1 meetings between Slava’s team and people from other financial institutions.

Action items

• JC & Lynn Neir (Deactivated): check whether documentation of Symphony web app API is accessible

• JC & Lynn Neir (Deactivated): let WG members know whether the API methods used by Symphony Electron are exposed in Symphony 1.46

• Aaron Williamson: send ODP info to list (esp. to Former user (Deleted) & Former user (Deleted)) 

• Aaron Williamson: arrange meetings between member firms and DB re: interest in Plexus