Lotus Quickr Template Demo - QPhotos
Category NoneThis 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!
Comments
Posted by Bruce Elgort At 10:04:21 PM On 05/07/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Stuart McIntyre At 04:29:38 AM On 05/08/2007 | - Website - |
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?
Posted by Mathieu Lacrabere At 05:53:10 AM On 05/09/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Geordon At 07:03:58 AM On 05/09/2007 | - Website - |
@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.
Posted by Rob Novak At 08:20:06 AM On 05/09/2007 | - Website - |
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!
Posted by Mathieu Lacrabere At 08:39:54 AM On 05/09/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Graham Bassett At 07:18:22 AM On 05/10/2007 | - Website - |
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
Posted by Jeff Berg At 08:39:46 PM On 05/14/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Rob Novak At 10:15:35 AM On 05/15/2007 | - Website - |
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
Posted by Tony Waghorn At 03:14:19 AM On 05/24/2007 | - Website - |
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.
Posted by Tony Waghorn At 07:51:02 AM On 05/29/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Peter Simon At 02:13:06 PM On 06/04/2007 | - Website - |
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.
Posted by Rob Novak At 02:59:28 PM On 06/04/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Marvin Bayless At 12:07:36 PM On 06/20/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by I Turner At 08:07:45 AM On 06/22/2007 | - Website - |