[Bodington-developers] New Tool in WebLearn (codename EasyWriter)

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Just a bit of a heads up, Oxford is developing a new tool that allows
people to collaborate on document creation.

Basic Requirements.

# Very easy to start typing
# Ideally all in one screen after you say create
# Export to another format (likely a user wants it into .doc so .rtf or
copy/paste to word )
# Print friendly page.
# Locking of revisions so changes aren't lost (optimistic locking or
explicit)
# Tracking who changed the document and when.
# Quick creation of the resource.
# Start editing straight away ( given edit box at start ).
# Uses more powerful HTML widget (FCKEditor).
# Titles are more important than URLs, auto generate urls from titles.
Allow later editing or url.

This isn't going to be much, just a cross between structured document
and textblock really (but with added locking) and is being developed to
address a need at Oxford.

-- 
 Matthew Buckett