Sitecore integration- best approach

The developer training artivle on the REST SDK is what you want, as using REST is the appropriate way to integrate.

To Answer questions directly:

• If I am going to integrate TC to existing Sitecore website, can I use the Views of TC?
  • No, there is no remote view concept other than using REST to execute a remote widget or build a UI using raw data.
• Does both Sitecore and TC co-exists in the same website and I only need to wire-up SSO between them?
  • No they should not, while its is theoretically possible, it may be unstable and not really meant to work that way, especially since Telligent Community has its own server specific system requirements.   It is a standalone website, not meant to be an add-on.
• Or do I need to fully implement forum (Views, functionality, etc.) from scratch using Social Sitecore SDK?
  • Correct.

Thanks Patrick M. for detailed reply. It looks like I have to use Social Sitecore SDK for the best experience. I had look at the Social Sitecore SDK Samples at GitHub. The documentation says that - "Telligent Community -You will need to also include all the files from the SDK and a compiled version of the SDK itself.".

Does all the files from SDK means the TC's website contents? Also, where should I include all those files? Does that means, I need to copy TC's website contents to Sitecore installation?

It is also referring to "compiled version of SDK". Is that Social Sitecore SDK?

The wiki section is empty and there appears to be thin documentation of how to use the SDK and run the samples.

Awaiting your response.

Thanks Patrick M. for detailed reply. It looks like I have to use Social Sitecore SDK for the best experience. I had look at the Social Sitecore SDK Samples at GitHub. The documentation says that - "Telligent Community -You will need to also include all the files from the SDK and a compiled version of the SDK itself.".

Does all the files from SDK means the TC's website contents? Also, where should I include all those files? Does that means, I need to copy TC's website contents to Sitecore installation?

It is also referring to "compiled version of SDK". Is that Social Sitecore SDK?

The wiki section is empty and there appears to be thin documentation of how to use the SDK and run the samples.

Awaiting your response.

So don't bother with the Sitecore SDK itself, its really the same as the core SDK right now and we are pushing people to just use the core .NET SDK as it is fully featured.  

In fact the article you reference just links to it now.

Since you need a .NET solution to code, the easiest way is to follow the instructions in https://community.telligent.com/community/10/w/developer-training/53140/rest-sdk#How_to_Get_It  and install it via NuGet which gives you everything.

That's patrick. That helped clear most of my doubts. I think TC documentation for Sitecore is not addressing this clearly (or I misunderstood!).

Too glad that I got quick support to clarify my doubts from TC.

Appreciate it a lot.

Thank you.

Hello Patrick, I had a look at REST SDK. All I could understand was REST SDK allows you to pull TC contents (hosted in another domain) via REST. And these contents can be integrated in a target website. Is that correct?

I was thinking I could install TC backend and necessary frameworks via nugget (or similar). Then I could use the API to create forums, wiki, etc from scratch. Similar to what is shown in https://github.com/Telligent/Social-SitecoreSDK-Samples/blob/master/MVC/Telligent.SitecoreSDK.Samples.MVC/Controllers/ForumController.cs

Can you please clarify the same. Sorry for adding up more confusions.

Thank you.

Yes, the REST SDK is just a .NET wrapper for our REST API.  Its job is to allow you to more easily make REST requests and not have to worry about writing an Oauth flow or deserialization process.

Thanks for the clarification Patrick.