From SNAPPS Labs: Introducing SnappViews for IBM Lotus Quickr
Category QuickrIBM Lotus Quickr has folders and a fairly good way of presenting them. Domino has views as well, which are quite customizable and have evolved over 20 years. Domino developers with Ninja skills have made views do things you never could imagine (believe me, I know...we did an entire Great Code Giveaway on it in 2007). But those views, our precious views, were not meant to be consumed by Quickr for Domino. Nope, in fact, you're really not supposed to mess with the back end databases in Quickr. Heck, even the folks at SNAPPS have told you that for 12 years.
Until now.
Introducing SnappViewsTM for IBM Lotus Quickr, a breakthrough in data presentation and layout. You may have seen glimpses of this technology in our Quickr Templates for Quickr 8.0-8.2. Now with new improved versions for 8.2 and an all-new 8.5x version, we are releasing SnappViews into the wild.
What are they? Basically a ton of JavaScript that separates structure, data and -- with some imagination -- even security and functionality from your business process, while putting "development" in the hands of technical (and not so technical) business users. Using a SnappView, you can easily surface data the way you want it, without the restrictions of Quickr's folders, in many ways:
--Build your own view and choose the columns to display
--Create a categorized view
--Bring in a view from another Quickr place
--Bring in a view from another Notes database (web-enabled or not!)
--Bring in relational or other data using DECS or LEI with Domino
--Choose columns to be clickable, columns to hide, columns to use as tooltips for other columns
--Choose what columns to show to what security level of users (try that in a regular view...)
--Decide how wide each column should be relative to the others
--Use pass-through HTML in your views to create checkboxes, images, and more (all you know how to do with views...)
With some imagination (or, perhaps, some help from some wonderful people who really know how they work...hint), you can build SnappViews that handle multi-document workflows, approval structures, custom security implementations, and more.
Watch in the next few days as we assemble screenshots and a video for the corporate website illustrating how flexible and powerful this method of data presentation can be for your collaboration spaces...! I'll have a follow-up entry pointing to these resources, graphics, and pricing soon...
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Posted by Graeme At 04:44:56 PM On 08/25/2011 | - Website - |
Posted by Siggi At 04:59:54 PM On 08/25/2011 | - Website - |
Elijah
Posted by Elijah Lapson At 06:17:33 PM On 08/25/2011 | - Website - |
This looks to be a very interesting new twist on Quickr Place design! You've done it again SNAPPS!
Posted by bu11frogg At 12:19:06 PM On 08/29/2011 | - Website - |