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IBM Lotus Quickr, with a set of services for IBM
Lotus Domino, is a secure, portable, self-service Web
application that provides instant, centralized, team work spaces
that can be used in both intranet and extranet deployments. It provides
seamless online and offline support and enables teams to:
- Collaborate by sharing and discussing ideas, resolving issues,
coauthoring documents, exchanging files, and managing schedules
- Communicate actions, decisions, key findings, and other knowledge
by publishing them to the team place
- Coordinate people, tasks, plans, and resources
Lotus Quickr delivers a number of new features such as:
- Connectors for Microsoft Windows Explorer, IBM
Lotus Sametime, IBM Lotus Notes mail, and Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel & Powerpoint)
- A new user interface look and enhancements, such as drag-and-drop
and context menus for documents, people, and places
- A new place member role, SuperUser
- An Announcements folder and a Collaborations
folder in the default theme
- Wiki and Blog-type places
- Administrative user enhancements
- Atom XML-formatted feed
Lotus Quickr connectors
Usingthe new connectors that are easily installed on their client machines, users can quickly work
and collaborate with files in Lotus Quickr libraries from within the Windows Explorer, Lotus Sametime, Lotus
Notes mail, or Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & Powerpoint) applications. Files can also be created,
opened or updated through the new Lotus Quickr connectors without users opening or using thier internet browser!
Atom feed
The Atom feed is an XML-formatted feed that can pull content
from various place document repository areas such as folder document
listings, forms listings, members listings, and a What’s
New document.
User interface changes
A number of new user interface and navigation features are available
in Lotus
Quickr:
- Context menus for places, folders, documents, and people are
available for all types of documents in Lotus
Quickr, including regular posts, tasks, and calendar
events, anywhere a document name appears in Lotus
Quickr.
- Analogous to document context menus, member context menus
associated with peoples’ names will be available anywhere
a place member’s name appears in Lotus
Quickr.
- In any folder view, you can drag-and-drop documents into another
folder.
- A business-card-style menu pops up when you click on the dropdown
menu icon beside a place member name anywhere in Lotus
Quickr.
- A dropdown menu appears when mousing over the Create action
button. Releasing the mouse on any item accesses the appropriate
Edit mode for the new document.
New place member role
A new place member role is available:
- The Place SuperUser is a new access level for managers, giving
them super-user type access throughout one place only. This
role, previously known as the Place Owner, allows one or more
individuals access to every single room and document in a place.
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