We've been meaning to make a promotional video about SharePlus for sometime now, and yesterday we finally published one. Without further ado...
It's a first, with lots of space for improvement, starting with my accent, and more importantly it's based on v1.5, which is a couple of releases behind our working version, so there are some nice features not present in the video. Still I hope it captures the essence of the app and you may even like it :)
7/13/2010
SharePlus v2.0 comming attractions
We've received several emails querying the status of version 2.0 of SharePlus, our iPad/iPhone client for SharePoint, so I thought it might be a good idea sharing it over here.
Version 2.0 will introduce two major improvements. First of all, support for adding and editing list items, meaning SharePlus wont be anymore "just" a read only app. For the moment adding and editing will be available only when connected, and for SharePlus Pro.
In order to support editing documents, and then uploading them back to a document library we introduced the notion of a document's inbox within SharePlus. The idea is that you open a document for edit in a third party app, such as Documents To Go, edit it, and then send it back to SharePlus, since now we implement the "Open In" file sharing protocol for incoming documents. Documents received this way are stored in the SharePlus's inbox, so that when you edit a list item, you may select from the inbox the edited version of the document to update the list.
The second improvement is about storing data for offline navigation in a background process. At the moment offline support requires for the user to pre-navigate all the data for it to be stored locally.
This involves re-implementing from scratch the way offline data is stored, and introducing some filtering mechanisms to let the user specify which content should be downloaded to the device, since we definitely don´t want to attempt to download all the SharePoint data, potentially teras of information, to an iPad/iPhone device (unless you explicitly want to :)
A first design decision in this sense is to allow the user to choose the list view that will be used for downloading the content. In this way the user can define server side filters at the List view level. Additionally other filtering mechanisms will be added such as specifying max size for attachments and documents to download.
We have a great deal of faith put in this version, we believe it has the potential to take SharePlus to a new level for SharePoint mobile users. We are working hard to make a submit for approval sometime next week.
Version 2.0 will introduce two major improvements. First of all, support for adding and editing list items, meaning SharePlus wont be anymore "just" a read only app. For the moment adding and editing will be available only when connected, and for SharePlus Pro.
In order to support editing documents, and then uploading them back to a document library we introduced the notion of a document's inbox within SharePlus. The idea is that you open a document for edit in a third party app, such as Documents To Go, edit it, and then send it back to SharePlus, since now we implement the "Open In" file sharing protocol for incoming documents. Documents received this way are stored in the SharePlus's inbox, so that when you edit a list item, you may select from the inbox the edited version of the document to update the list.
The second improvement is about storing data for offline navigation in a background process. At the moment offline support requires for the user to pre-navigate all the data for it to be stored locally.
This involves re-implementing from scratch the way offline data is stored, and introducing some filtering mechanisms to let the user specify which content should be downloaded to the device, since we definitely don´t want to attempt to download all the SharePoint data, potentially teras of information, to an iPad/iPhone device (unless you explicitly want to :)
We have a great deal of faith put in this version, we believe it has the potential to take SharePlus to a new level for SharePoint mobile users. We are working hard to make a submit for approval sometime next week.
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