This is what it look like, right now.... (please remember it's the first PoC so it will have to undergo some UI corrections and better practices ;)
Just to mention some of the features, as it is currently....
- It's split up into to concepts
- A drop enabled viewer part with a filter functionality (configured to fetch and show documents from views)
- A drop pad (here users can drop documents on the current selected target document in the current Notes context, from the inbox, calender....whatever...)
- The widget is extremely configurable
- The widget can listen to Notes document selections coming from any view, folder or alike. And if any of the selected document has a form name that matches one from the configuration....well then it's a potential drop target.
- You can have sticky targets (targets that stays tight, even when you select other potential target documents)
- When you drop a bunch of documents they can either get copied and "responsed" on the target / main document or you can configure it to create a DND (Drag n Drop) main document in the target database and make the drop get "responsed" on that DND document instead, enabling you to do some processing on the drop before the dropped documents gets "responsed" on the real target / main document
- You can configure agents to run on the target document (via the NOTEID) after a drop, enabling you to do some post processing
- The user can use the viewer to directly open the documents and databases
- And much much more....
Here is a shot of a drop of mails in the viewer part
Here is a shot of a drop of mails onto the drop pad (relating to a current selected target document, which could have been selected in a random Notes view in a random application.
Here you can see some of the setup possibilities in the relating preference pages. Focus on the tabbed folder component to see the different configuration settings.
The Database Tab:
The Viewer Tab:
The Drag n Drop Tab:
The Target Tab:
Cool right? Feel free to supply with any comments and ideas.
So what's the plan now???....Well now the widget has to undergo some further investigation in a complete features set, testing, release plan and other stuff (and we are thinking of distributing it for free!!!!) but let's see what happens in the end.
The creator of an Eclipse Bible, introduces Equinox and its building blocks for creating applications. We overview the architecture and technology, and demonstrate many of the building blocks.
