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:
- current paper: This is added to make attributes of the paper accesible faster. It will replace the 'ctrl-click' actions in the paper, e.g. on the title of the paper.
- recent papers : this shows the same list as described in the previous version.
- the local library: this shows all papers which the user has available on his machine. When he is writing a paper, other people (assigned by the user) can comment on it, and this will also be accessible form this menu item. (We join the list of papers and their comments to save some space, else things could become messy.)
- The menu provided by the tab is now simplified:
- We erased the privacy option, this behavior now happens 'under the hood' as explained later.
- Searching in the local and online libraries are now combined in one button.
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 now provide a meta-search tool for searching through papers.
- Privacy is now done in an entirely different way: When clicking publish, only team members will be able to read/edit work in progress. When a paper's status is set to final, clicking publish, ensures your paper will be public available and will be listed in the search results. Team members who were cooperating on the paper, will be notified of the final version.
We expect to finnish our storyboard later this week.
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