[aperi-dev] Two Birds w/one email: Report Viewer/Manager UI Walk-Through

[Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy All,

At today's Aperi design meeting we were
discussing additional documentation that might be produced in support of
Aperi users and developers.
I suggested producing some animated
demos showing how to install and initially configure the product.
Recently, I produced a narrated power
point slide show for the Report Viewer/Manager UI design. This was pretty
good, but had a lot of Microsoftish drawbacks (bloated, requires M$ products
to view, etc).
Craig L. suggested I try ViewletBuilder
from Qarbon to build a flash demo.

So, coincidentally ...

I just finished coding the new UI for
the Aperi Report Viewer/Manager and wanted to show folks how it turned
out, but its not quite ready for checkin and general use (IP issues and
technical complications w/app servers).
I used ViewletBuilder to put together
a narrated flash animation walk-through of the new UI and I have placed
it in the wiki.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Aperi/architecture#R3_Designs
The backend is still mostly stubbed
out, but the primary functions (report viewing and uploading) work and
are demonstrated.

Bird 1: Try ViewletBuilder (or equiv)
to create flash demos: worked pretty good, much much much easier to use
the PowerPoint for animated demos.
Bird 2: Get the new UI in front of folk
so they can opine upon it: please take a look, its about 5 mins of video

Dave Wolfe/Portland/IBM
(dwolfe@xxxxxxxxxx)
TL: 775-3376 Office: 503-578-3376 Personal: 503-329-3960

GUI Technical Lead, Aperi Open Source Storage Management http://www.eclipse.org/aperi

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