You can find our final report here:
On the 4th of may we did a small presentation about the current status of the project. You can find it here:
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Here you can find our video about the revised version of our plugin.
We do note that we could not use our original storyboard because we did not have a scanner availlable.
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intro: We now describe a revised version of our paper plugin for microsoft word. We will illustrate how we add a reference and share the paper with a team.
1: When we start writing a paper the first things we see are the added tab and the extra window, we will need these later. But first we will add some text to our paper.
2: After writing a bit of text we now notice in the extra window that we can expand the author menu.
3: If we click this we will see a list of authors. Next to them are information buttons. We will click one of them to get more information about the authors.
4: Now we see a list of papers written by the author. We will add a reference to it by dragging it on our own paper.
5: The reference has been added. The paper will appear under the recent papers.
6: We look at them and we see that the only paper we consulted was paper 1. We can read it if we want but this is currently of no concern to us. With the reference and some text added we can now take a break. While we do that, others can view the paper. We will now illustrate how this happens. First we click on 'team' to open the teamview.
7: We see 4 teams here. We share the paper by dragging the current paper to the 2 wanted teams.
8: Now we would like to publish our papers so only our teams will be able to see it. To do so we will first have to edit the status of our paper. We click on the button 'status' and we select 'in progress'.
9: We are now ready to publish our paper to our teams. We click 'publish' and we see that we can choose our folder to save the paper. We can also edit the 'abstract' part that shows as a comment with the paper. Now the program has detected the part good so we will not edit it.
10: We are now ready with sharing our paper. Other authors can now edit the paper while using the word functionality to keep track of changes.
11: Later we will see in our library how many edits happened to wich papers.
We will add the storyboard image soon.
edit: Here is the storyboard. I hope it's a bit clear with these images:
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We are currently revisioning our plug-in.
Some mayor changes we are planning on are:
- We redesigned the paper view on the right: We now have a menu containing 3 main parts:
- The menu provided by the tab is now simplified:
Also, we now actually use the teams (equivalent for facebook groups) that can be formed. You'll have to drag your temporary paper to a team to make it accessible for it members. Only non-final versions can be edited by the members of that specific team. We will not implement anything on keeping track of changes, we recommend our users to use the functionality provided by Word. If a change happens or someone leaves a comment, the team, as the writer, will be notified of this.
We also have several under the hood changes:
We expect to finnish our storyboard later this week.
We finnished our first report on our paper plugin for word.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1C1VIH6C
http://rapidshare.com/files/354178332/ChiKennieVerslag1.pdf
We will add a better host later.
Edit: we added a more accessible host:
This is a video on the storyboard for the project for this course. We here describe the word-plugin wich is the most important feature of our application:
1: We describe a paper plugin for word which will help scientists to improve the cohesion between related papers, and the speed of writing them.
We enter the familiar surroundings of MS word, and we add a small 'paper' view on the right, and a new 'paper' tab on the top. In the view all the useful tools for writing a paper will be presented. When no option is active, this view lists all the active papers.
We assume the standard layout of a paper, including title, author and keywords.
When the title is clicked holding the controll button, the plugin will search for related papers to that title, so the writer can access those papers quickly. The same goes for the keywords.
2: We call the current paper P1, relevant papers are shown in the right view. The user clicks on one of these papers and ,if not yet in the local library, that paper will be downloaded from the internet. A new window will be opened.
3: Assume this is a paper with title P5, written by A5. Control click on his name will show all the info we have about A5 in the custom view.
4: We close the window about the author.
5: Next we see the most recently active papers. An alinea of the text in paper P5 is selected with the mouse, and dragged to P1 in the list of recent papers.
6: This creates a quote in paper P1, together with a reference to P5.
7: In P1 again, from the 'recent' list, P2 is dragged into the text of P1, which creates a reference to P2, without any quote.
8: We now use the menu extension, the paper tab. We select the button 'status' and the options appear in the right view. Any state can be selected,
for example 'draft'. After this we click the publish button, which means we will send the paper in its current state to the website.
9: A publish window appears, where all info can be edited. The title, Author, keywords & abstract part are found in the paper by the tool, when possible.
10: The user has the option to select this data himself through the 'select' button near every item.
11: This select button takes the user back to the paper, where he will select the right part out of the text for example the 'abstract' part, and the button on the right view 'select as abstract' is clicked.
12: The publish window shows again with the edited info (abstract), and OK is clicked to finalize the upload. This item is also stored in the local library.
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Here is the image used in the video:
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