I am just attending the ODF Plugfest 2014 in London. There are many talks in a short time frame, so my time to present was really too short to give a good overview about what OX Documents can do. So I thought it might be a good idea to share the videos with you that I produced for my presentation.
First, here is the presentation.
And here are my videos. Please note that I just created them for the sole purpose of being independent from a functioning infrastructure at the Plugfest. They are by no mean professional. I am an engineer, not an artist.
This video quickly demonstrates what happens when you open a document in OX Documents. The client receives a lot of operations. They are completely independent from the document being ODF or OOXML. Of course it’s an ODF file, since I am on the ODF Plugfest. Our debug tooling is activated, so you can see the operations arriving and leaving.
This is a short video that shows nicely the document round trip. The ODF document contains some features that OX Text doesn’t understand, OLE and Smart Arts. You see some place holders, and in the case of the Excel OLE even a replacement image that was kindly stored in the document. After making some changes to the content, and even changing the position of the OLE replacement, we load it in Open Office and all unknown objects are still intact. This is why we believe that round trip so important. People should feel comfortable when switching between OX Text and other office applications.
Video 3: Demonstration OX Text
This is quite long (6 minutes). After logging in to OX App Suite, and quickly skipping through the core apps like portal, mail, address book, calendar and tasks, we are in OX Drive. That´s the place where our documents live. After quickly looking at the document in Open Office, we open it in OX Text. I make many different changes and demonstrate smart features like undo and redo. Skip to 3m:50s, if you don’t want to watch all of them. Now we open the document in Open Office to see all changes are there. Did we forget to save the document before doing so? No – of course this is nothing you need to care about anymore. The rest of the video is about collaboration. David and Eva both open the same document in OX Text, which is stored in a folder and shared by David. Both David and Eva opened the document for editing, both see changes from the other almost immediately. With the minor restriction that only one can edit at a time. The status is shown in the notification as well as in the popup showing the co-authors.
Just a very quick demo of OX Spreadsheet.
There are many other things to show – if you want to look yourself, feel free to play with the demo!
You might want to upload and use my ODF demo files Superbike Brochure.odt andSuperbike Round-trip.odt.