Learn more about the document management of Lotus Quickr V8.0

Introduction: Document management is one of the most important it requirements of the enterprise, and also the core function of Lotus Quickr, which allows users to easily store, organize, and share documents. This paper will introduce the main functions and characteristics of Lotus Quickr document management, and hope to help readers understand this core function.

A new generation of content collaboration software Lotus Quickr 8.0 was released in June 2007 and includes the Lotus Quickr for Domino and Lotus Quickr for Portal two versions. Document management is one of the most important it requirements for an enterprise, and it is also the core function of Lotus Quickr, which allows users to easily store, organize, and share documents. This paper will introduce the main functions and characteristics of Lotus Quickr document management, and hope to help readers understand this core function. (The screenshots and features shown in this article are the Lotus Quickr for Portal version, and the Lotus Quickr for Domino version has a slightly different feature and UI.) ）

Overview

IBM has long changed its traditional old-fashioned image, in the software has been paying attention to guide the development of the trend and advocacy industry standards. As a newly launched collaborative software, Lotus Quickr has a lot of outstanding performance in document management.

Technical aspects

Lotus Quickr is a Web 2.0-based enterprise content collaboration software that employs a wide range of Web 2.0-related technologies and components to enhance the user experience, following industry standards, openness and interoperability:

Introduction of Ajax Technology

Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a widely used Web 2.0 development technology at the core of which is the asynchronous invocation of Web applications. As shown in the following illustration, when we move the mouse over the file, we get a preview of the document. Compared with the previous technology, because of the use of Ajax technology, only the user issued a request to generate a preview, reducing the burden on the server, and because it is asynchronous calls, without refreshing the page, greatly improve the user experience. In addition, Lotus Quickr in the document management interface, the use of a large number of drop-down menus, so that users of the document operations like desktop applications as simple and quick.

Figure 1. Ajax Technology Implementation Example: previewing picture files