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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Hi Mikkel…very cool! I’m looking forward to catching your session at Lotusphere!!!
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Very cool.
which pdf library did you used ?
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That is awesome Mikkel.
Pat yourself on the back, you deserve it.
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I used iText (http://www.lowagie.com/iText)
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Very slick – and usefull !
How about dragging to the sidebar from outside Lotus ?
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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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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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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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