Released LogicalDOC Outlook AddIn v1.0

The version 1.0 of the LogicalDOC Outlook AddIn is now available!

Today, many commercial and operational communications transit to and from organizations via email.
To improve the knowledge of these informations and business processes is necessary to make these informations available so they are accessible and usable without having to rewrite or duplicate each time.

Using this plugin you can store your emails in logicaldoc for sharing  and make the informations contained in them more accessible via the logicaldoc full-text search future.

Emails are saved in the original Outlook .msg format, so you can then download them from logicaldoc and view them in Outlook, attachments are also saved along with the email.

The second feature of the plugin is to save the attachments.
In some cases, in fact the relevant information is not the mail, but in the documents it carries.
Therefore it is unnecessary to save the whole email, while it is very useful the possibility to save the associated files.

The last feature in this first release is the ability to select directly from LogicalDOC, thanks to a simple function of browsing, one or more documents to be attached to an outgoing email.
This way you can send documents directly from Outlook, without having to access in advance and download documents locally.

LogicalDOC Outlook Addin is an optional plug-in available for the commercial editions of the software starting from version 6.0.2

For more information see the Outlook AddIn page on the website of the product.

LogicalDOC Menu

Configuration: default folder for email archiving

Result of importing email

Open Attachments browser

LogicalDOC Attachments browser

Why we choose GWT

LogicalDOC moved from a traditional user interface based on scripting technology like JSP/JSF to the modern and powerful GWT framework coming from Google. Up to now, we are proud to offer the Document Management System with the more advanced user interface available today.

This new approach allowed us to drastically reduce the code for the presentation layer and limit the knowledge needed to develop, since we dropped a lot of complex enterprise technologies to start to develop in pure Java language.

LogicalDOC 6.0 GWT GUI (click to enlarge)

When the experience counts

It doesn't matter how good is your product, the only thing your users will look is the user interface. After all each electronic artifact exists to serve human people business processes. So the way in which your users interact with your system is the most important aspect and you have to take care about your users experience.

A graphical user interface based on GWT (Google Web Toolkit) technologies will assure you these following goals:

• High response times, since all the GUI is executed in the client side
• High experience, equal to a traditional desktop systems
• Compatibility with all used browsers

The best thing that GWT will do for you is to completely decouple the presentation layer (completely executed in the client) from the business and data layers (completely executed in the server)

GWT role in an Enterprise Application

Approaching the development of an enterprise-class application like LogicalDOC, involves the development of a large number of similar widget and forms for data manipulation. These elements are presentation layer components, and here are two general approaches to develop them:

1. Creating of separate classes which represents visual component for each form.
2. Creating universal visual components and widgets that can be composed together

If you try to follow the first way you probably will have a lot of code to produce and a lot of development time. You may agree that the correct approach is the first one and GWT simply adopts the Object Oriented paradigm allowing you to reuse components and take benefit from concept like inheritance and polymorphism.

So when building a user interface with GWT, it is possible to use generic components, significantly reducing the resources for the development of the presentation layer. In addition since GWT is pure Java you will not be required to use senior development resources, you just develop in standard Java.

Search LogicalDOC from your Smartphone

Logical Objects is pleased to announce that from Friday 02/11/2011 is available on Google Marketplace the LogicalDOC App in version 1.0.

This application allows you to connect to a remote LogicalDOC 6.0 and via Web-services perform full-text search on the repository of documents, to view the results of a search (including snippets of text) and to download the document on your smart-phone or Android tablet.

The application works with both LogicalDOC CE (Community Edition) and the Commercial editions of software.

Find the LogicalDOC Android App in the Android Marketplace searching for 'logicaldoc'

LogicalDOC Android icon

Configuring connection parameters to a LogicalDOC server instance

Composing Full-text search

Full-text search results

Display content snippet of a search result

Download of a document can be activated by doing a long-time press on a result of a full-text search

Find the LogicalDOC Android App in the Android Marketplace searching for 'logicaldoc'

LogicalDOC Store Live

Logical Objects presents the new LogicalDOC Store. This is the official e-commerce site where you can purchase all LogicalDOC products.

We have created this online store to allow you to buy in simplicity and security all products related to LogicalDOC from software licenses to support services.

To all of you, from all of us at LogicalDOC Store - Thank you and Happy Shopping!

http://store.logicaldoc.com

The LogicalDOC Team

2 lines about the New Graphic

For the 5.0 release of LogicalDOC we thought it was appropriate to do a restyling of the Web interface.
In particular we wish to give to the program a more modern design to communicate an image more professional and the strength of the solution.

Following this path we have taken action to change the head of the program by entering a dark-blue color to separate from the more operational section below, by including however, a varied background pattern to communicate a sense of modernity and speed.

As regards the menus we have redefined the head menus by removing the icons to give more uniformity to the whole and in consequence of this choice also contextual menus on documents have undergone the same treatment.

In a article appeared on a Polish blog our system was at fault in relation to others regarding the ergonomics of use.
To improve this aspect we have taken action on three fronts:
introduction of the navigation tree on folders, repositioning of the breadcrumb, restyling of the buttons.

Thanks to the navigation tree is much faster to move between folders, the repositioning of the breadcrumb in turn facilitates the user to understand its exact location within the repository, while the new style of the buttons enhances their visibility and usability.

We are very satisfied of the result obtained because our customers have appreciated this renovation and they informed us spontaneously that the new interface was more pleasant and functional than the last.

In the future we already have other innovations to further improve the GUI of LogicalDOC, one of which will be the contextual menu on folders.
This improvement will allow even easier access to functions on the folder, similar to the contextual menu on the documents.

LogicalDOC 5.0 Released

Logical Objects is pleased to announce the new release 5.0 of the popular LogicalDOC DMS. This new release represents a milestone in the product evolution.

LogicalDOC 5.0 comes with a complete and powerful Workflow, with this feature you can visually design your processes directly inside the browser without external editors. This workflow comprises an escalation management that allows you to define tasks lenghts and recurring warning messages to involved users.

Another important update regards the auditing, now users can register themselves to be notified about changes of single documents or entire folders, and this via e-mail or RSS.

Read more in the product website: http://www.logicaldoc.com

The LogicalDOC development Team

LogicalDOC changed the reference Database

With the recently released version 5.0, LogicalDOC adopts MySQL as reference database.
The decision was taken in compliance with a lot of performance tests and MySQL was the right solution to obtain good speed performances on huge amounts of documents.