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:
- Coordinate people, tasks, plans, and resources
- 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
Lotus Quickr delivers a number of new features
such as:
- Connectors for Microsoft(R) Windows Explorer, IBM Lotus Sametime®, IBM Lotus Notes® mail, and Microsoft Office applications
- 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 (formerly Welcome) folder and a Collaborations (formerly
Library) folder in the default theme
- Wiki- and Blog-type places
- Administrative user enhancements
- Atom XML-formatted feed
Lotus Quickr connectors
Using connectors easily
installed on their client machines, users work and collaborate with files
in Lotus Quickr libraries from within the
Windows Explorer, Lotus Sametime, Lotus
Notes mail, or Microsoft Office application interfaces. To be available
through the connectors, files must be stored in a place’s Collaborations folder.
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.
Quickr, Version 8.0
