PubNub Realtime Component

This plug-in uses Pubnub to handle real-time use cases such as the ones listed below. 
Real-time Use Cases:
  • Real-time dashboards and interfaces
    • Case handler working on support cases (cases record) can immediately see the new cases registered without refreshing their screen
    • For any long-running asynchronous process, the user need not to refresh the screen to see the status as the updates can be sent real-time to the user's view
    • See the real-time progress of batch processes
    • See the status of a person, tasks working on different screens using PubNub presence API. The status can be as granular as getting an update when the user starts typing
    • Add the power of collaboration to any Appian interface. Example - two persons collaborating in Google Docs.
    • Build Real-time feeds, activities, and notifications for your application.
  • Real-time Maps
    • Bring data from any source/ stream publish on a channel and see the real-time maps
    • Build Geofencing, geocoding, geo hashing, directions and other powerful features in your application
  • Live Visualizations
    • Bring streaming data and push it to Charts and Graphs
    • Live auctions, financial stocks, and indexes, or scoreboards, send and publish updates to UIs in an instant.
    • Show real-time updates in Appian from any IoT device.

The Pubnub subscribe field is an invisible field listening real-time to the subscribed channels and passing the event and the data to Appian interfaces.

Use this component with the PubNub Realtime Connected System to subscribe to the channels.

Key Functionality Provided:

  • Provide the list of channels, channel group to subscribe
  • Listens to messages from subscribed channels and passed the event data in Appian
  • Allow setting presence events status
  • Allow setting heartbeat that tells how many seconds PubNub should wait after an ungraceful disconnect (such as closing the browser), before considering a user as timed out
  • Use PubNub Access manager to grant access, remove access to an AuthKey
  • Please make sure you have required features enabled from the PubNub configuration console
  • Supported Browsers are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Appian for Mobile
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