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Lotusphere 2009: Cool demo - if I may say so myself :-)

My Lotusphere session preparation is in full swing and as previously mentioned this includes preparing demos.

The latest one I have done is about drag'n'drop and how you can use it to do some cool stuff. The demo shows how you can drag text from an e-mail to a sidebar plug-in and have the sidebar plug-in accept the drop. Then when you drag the text from the sidebar plug-in it is converted into a PDF document hence drag'n'drop from the sidebar plug-in results in a file. Text in - file out.

Using Wink I did a Flash movie that shows the demo.

Think how this could be extended to converting product items to PDF for custom quotations on the fly...

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Posted by Mikkel Heisterberg on 26 November 2008 22:09:00 CET #


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Re: Lotusphere 2009: Cool demo - if I may say so myself :-)

Comment from Chris Blatnick on 26 November 2008 23:01:20 CET #
Hi Mikkel...very cool!  I'm looking forward to catching your session at Lotusphere!!!
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Re: Lotusphere 2009: Cool demo - if I may say so myself :-)

Comment from Tony Palmer on 26 November 2008 23:39:45 CET #
Very cool.

which pdf library did you used ?
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Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 27 November 2008 08:55:13 CET #
I used iText (http://www.lowagie.com/iText)
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Cool

Comment from Jens Bruntt on 27 November 2008 07:20:45 CET #
That is awesome Mikkel.
Pat yourself on the back, you deserve it.
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Re: Lotusphere 2009: Cool demo - if I may say so myself :-)

Comment from Tanker on 02 December 2008 19:21:31 CET #
Very slick - and usefull !

How about dragging to the sidebar from outside Lotus ?
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Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 03 December 2008 06:57:13 CET #
That's not a problem. The text, files or similar could just as well be dragged in from the desktop, a spreadsheet or similar.
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Comment from Tim Crannigan on 08 December 2008 13:25:58 CET #

Very cool!

Do you plan to release this? Does it need 8.5 or will earlier versions work?

Where do you find information on developing plugins?

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Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 08 December 2008 16:00:07 CET #
Sure I will release it and it will be part of my demos at Lotusphere. If you want to get started and you're going to Lotusphere I suggest to stop by session BP106. The plug-in runs fine in earlier versions than Notes 8.5 though there might an issue with dragging text from e-mails as I think this was added in 8.5.

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