I’ve been working on a proof of concept for a meeting room scheduler software I think you will find interesting.
The initial target audience of the app is professional services organizations with geographically dispersed offices that need to manage meeting rooms in the different offices but don’t have a large team dedicated to this task or a large budget to acquire expensive meeting room management software.
I’ve been writing document assembly software for the past few weeks and I’ve found some interesting challenges in the process. One is an issue where some placeholders in the document template break after I edit the template file manually.
Before I show you the details and the solution I found, let me give you some context by reviewing what document assembly is.
An automated document assembly system, or document automation system, merges data originated from a repository, or collected on the fly through a user interface, into a document template, to generate electronic documents as its output.
There can be various levels of complexity in this process, ranging from simple data insertion into the document template, to applying complex logic and conditional transformations to the source data during the merge process. Think about hiding or showing paragraphs, inserting or removing list items, and highlighting or underlining text blocks.
In this article, I will describe a quick method I use in my web applications to create a progress indicator using Bootstrap and Font Awesome. I like this method because it doesn’t require adding large amounts of html and JavaScript code to the application.
A progress indicator gives users feedback about what’s happening in the application. You can use it to increase the perceived performance of the app, especially during long-running operations. My indicator will render as a rectangle with an animated spinner and a text message:
I can control the spinner type, text, colors and other visual attributes using CSS. I use Font Awesome for the spinner and some styles from Bootstrap for the other elements of the indicator.
I’ve created small and medium-size intranets using plain HTML, ColdFusion, Active Server Pages, Microsoft .NET, SharePoint and WordPress. Over the years, I’ve often had to answer the question of what content management system (CMS) companies should use for an intranet.
In this article I discuss a set of guidelines that will help you pick an intranet content management system that works great for your specific business situation. They cover five key areas you need to address to have a healthy and successful intranet:
Let’s dive in.