This will be the first of many (many) Flash demos I'm posting about the upcoming release of free business applications (templates) for IBM Lotus Quickr. As I mentioned in a previous post, SNAPPS has partnered with IBM to produce these 14 business applications for Lotus Quickr. A couple of them, blogs and wikis, are destined for the product installation while many more are going to be downloadable, upgraded from time to time, and customizable.

In addition to demos of the applications themselves, I'll be posting demos of some of the new cross-template concepts and innovations separately - items like the new custom workflow engine, adjustable views (we finally settled on a name), Dojo integration concepts, and automated view provision via DXL. And as I mentioned earlier today, Viktor is also writing technical articles and will be working on several demos himself. Mine are designed for you to understand what they are and how users will benefit, while Viktor's will be more geared to the developer who wants to understand the details of a particular concept, possibly to reuse it or modify it. The "tag team" approach should give you a great education on what is possible with Lotus Quickr. Eventually we'll have a library of demos and put them all in one list.

So without any further delay, pull up a chair and launch the 9-minute QPhotos demo! Enjoy - and please ask questions here...email is overflowing right now!



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1. Bruce Elgort05/07/2007 11:04:21 PM
Homepage: http://www.bruceelgort.com

Great demo Rob. Quickr truly looks to be a great product.

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2. Stuart McIntyre05/08/2007 05:29:38 AM
Homepage: http://quickrblog.com

Great demo Rob. Love the use of the dojo-based elements. Can't wait to see the rest of the demos.

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3. Mathieu Lacrabere05/09/2007 06:53:10 AM

Thanks for this demo Rob, this really demonstrates what can be achieved in term of user interaction with Dojo.
However, and although there are some interesting functionalities like thumbnail viewing, I would have expected more from a QPhotos placetype like retrieving EXIF information from the photography or building diaporamas.
Do you know if this could be added before the official release?

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4. Geordon05/09/2007 08:03:58 AM

Looks like a pretty slick interface. Any chance this could be easily extended to other media formats, such as a catalog of .WMV or .WMA files which automatically play or launch into an external player when clicked?

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5. Rob Novak05/09/2007 09:20:06 AM
Homepage: http://www.LotusRockStar.com

Thanks all. More coming soon I promise. I am at Advisor Summit in Anaheim today, have two sessions then flying home. I plan to record one tomorrow afternoon.

@Mathieu: What you see here is finished, but can be enhanced however you like. We actually made an attempt to work with EXIF in the Java placebot, however discovered wide variations in the types of data sent by different camera manufacturers. It was out of scope for the project, but we did give it a try. Regarding diaporamas, there are a number of ways of course to include other open-source toolkits to do this - Lightbox, SmoothGallery, Scriptaculous, etc. You can enhance it however you like as the code is open - but we did not choose one for a couple reasons...preferences and contracts

@Geordon, thanks. A hidden feature here is that you can upload any file type you want. If it's not one supported for creating the thumbnail, it still keeps the file (say a PDF, WMV, etc.) and uses a default "No Photo" type image for a thumbnail in views. That can then be clickable to launch the file. If you wanted to have a music library, easy, just upload those files and click the image. And you can replace the image itself as well.

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6. Mathieu Lacrabere05/09/2007 09:39:54 AM

Thanks again Rob.
What I like in Domino, QuickPlace and now Quickr is that we can extend the functionalities and as it is using some standard libraries like Dojo it is even more fun!

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7. Graham Bassett05/10/2007 08:18:22 AM

Looks really good, nice interface, very snappy. Still trying to understand where the business use is for such a template. Looking forward to seeing the other demos !! Thanks Rob

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8. Jeff Berg05/14/2007 09:39:46 PM

Rob and Victor,

Really happy to see you guys step up!

Are you building the tagging capability in all the templates (perhaps as a common component)?

Thanks!
-Jeff

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9. Rob Novak05/15/2007 11:15:35 AM
Homepage: http://www.LotusRockStar.com

@Jeff, tagging is only being built into this one, but the code will be pretty easy to separate and reuse.

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10. Tony Waghorn05/24/2007 04:14:19 AM

This has great potential for our organisation - a charity based in the UK.
We would like to distribute photos from our stock library to our workers all over the world.
Being able to pull out the EXIF and IPTC core meta data from the photos would make using this a no-brainer for us.
Also, any way of doing an individual photo bulk upload? (I think from the demo, you can put several photos under common categories with common descriptions?)
There would be no point in us using Extensis or similar.
Does someone have the power to make that happen?
Great work guys.
Tony

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11. Tony Waghorn05/29/2007 08:51:02 AM

@Graham, you wondered about the business use for something like this - we are an international charity who have an extensive Stock Photo library, and have a bunch of workers who want to use and share photos about their work.
Being able to search our stock library, share their own photos and upload photos so others can do the same is hugely important for us.
Web based packages that do the same as this can cost $40-60 K and we'd be running them outside our intranet where the rest of the teamwork is going on.

Rob: We'd like to offer 3 sizes of the same image 50KB - 300KB and 2-5MB. Could QPhoto handle this in some way.
If each item was uploaded individually with three file attachments, it would?? but we'd like to bulk upload as much as possible. Any thoughts?
We're hoping this is a serious contender for delivering photo sharing across the organisation.

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12. Peter Simon06/04/2007 03:13:06 PM

Very nice, Rob. I showed it to my client who is wondering if there is any way to upload many picutres in one operation? For example, several hundred pictures in a directory, and then come along later to name them and categorize them as time permits.

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13. Rob Novak06/04/2007 03:59:28 PM
Homepage: http://www.LotusRockStar.com

@Peter & Tony,
Bulk upload was deferred until a later (post-ship) update and is in our future plans. At the time we completed QPhotos (to be renamed QImages soon to be more consistent with corporate image management needs), the memory requirements for streaming the images fr thumbnail processing were too intense to consider a bulk facility. We know how, it'll just be some time.

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14. Marvin Bayless06/20/2007 01:07:36 PM
Homepage: http://www.iamr5.com

MARVelous Demo Rob. The possibilities for Dojo based functionality is exciting. I can't wait to become "Dr. Dojo". Quikr is the new "Undiscovered Country". June 28th can't get here Quickr; no pun intended.

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15. I Turner06/22/2007 09:07:45 AM

Great demos - most appreciated, and getting my own hands on Quickr

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16. Karlis Melderis08/27/2007 10:07:26 AM
Homepage: http://www.vm.gov.lv

Waiting for bulk uploads... this is the only thing why I don't use this template...<br>please e-mail me your plans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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