IBM Lotus Quickr V8.0 Detailed

The new generation of content collaboration platform Lotus Quickr 8.0 on June 26 in the global release, The birth of Lotus Quickr will have a far-reaching impact on the company's cooperative office. This article will give you more in-depth revelation Lotus Quickr main function and characteristic.

[Edit Note: The screenshots and features shown in this article are the IBM Lotus Quickr Services for portal version, and the Lotus Quickr services for Domino version has a slightly different feature and UI interface. ]

This article will introduce the characteristics of Quickr from the following aspects:

• Rich commercial templates;

• role-based user management;

• Full support for WEB 2.0;

• Strong document management;

• Seamless desktop integration;

• EasyJet integration of applications;

• Open API interface;

• Good multilingual support;

A rich business template

To talk about Quickr templates, first understand the basics of Quickr Templates----Composite application framework.

Figure 1. QUICKR Composite Application Framework

By the figure above, we can see that the bottom of the combinatorial application is the Software Architecture service, which provides public services for the components and templates in the upper part of the QUICKR architecture, such as search, single sign-on, interface theme, personalization, user management, access control, transmission level encryption, backup recovery and other public services. In this way, every component developer and template developer will not have to care about the implementation of these functions, but focus on the application logic itself, reduce the development cost and improve the software quality. The next level is the Component Services layer, which includes collaborative components such as wikis, task management, content services such as document libraries, and some public services such as role management, Feed support. The top level is the combination application template that eventually shows the user to use, such as project management templates, meeting templates. These templates from the second tier of components, according to a certain business concept to choose, through a certain customization and configuration, and finally presented to the user. In addition to the default templates provided by the system, users can easily, like eating buffets, select components through "customization" and combine them into applications that meet their needs. The combination application template supports import and export and can be developed with a new and complex application template using Lotus Component Designer; Users can also develop their own application components based on the specifications of the combined application.

The following figure shows a customized team space for this article, using a document library to store references, writing with wikis, assigning tasks with task control, and controlling progress. The current UI is a scenario where customization is selected to add a new application component.

Figure 2. Customization of QUICKR combination applications

Role-based user management