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The nifty-fifty unearthed
Catching up on my Blog reading I came across a post from Tony Austin ranting about rants about Notes 9.0. In that post is a gold nugget (cat's gold I suppose): a link where you can download the original nifty-fifty (for the uninitiated: the nifty-fifty were 50 sample applications Lotus published ca 1999 1992/93 together with Notes R3/R4 in the early days of collaboration, where people would use groupware for a wide range of tasks and hadn't turned into eMail junkies). Looking at these applications I can't starve off that feeling that all the new web2.0 hype is pretty much the same old wine in, admitting very pretty, new barrels. These are the applications:
[Update]:The databases are in R2's ODS13 format, to save you the trouble of conversion they are now available in ODS51 of R8.5. Still the design hasn't changed, but there is hope (Do you now understand what a circulare reference is
).
- Things to Do
- Requisition Approvals
- Application Tracking
- Book Reviews
- Budget Planning
- Call Tracking
- Clip Art Gallery
- Contract Library
- Correspondence
- Customer Service (five databases -- Product Design Problems, Customer Suggestions, Knowledge Base, Data Dictionary)
- Call Tracking -- as well as a sixth database with documentation)
- Demo Room Reservation
- Employee Records
- Event Calendar
- Executive Briefings
- Expenses Reports
- Formula Catalog
- Forms Routing
- Electronic Library
- Icon Catalog
- Job Candidates
- Job Posting
- Sales Management
- Library Tracking & Training
- Purchasing Item Tracking
- Litigation
- Lookup Keyword Library
- Meeting Tracking
- Monthly Financials
- Engineering Notebook
- Patient Treatment Signoff
- People and Facilities
- Phone Book and Yellow Pages
- Presentations
- Race Results
- Real Estate Management
- Recipes
- Relocation Expenses
- Routing Tracking
- Reservation Scheduler
- Sell-through Sales Reports
- Shotgun E-Mail Communications
- Conference Suggestions
- Support Conference
- Support Center Call Tracking
- System Equipment Inventory
- Team Consolidate
- Team Room
- Tech Services Call Tracking
- Technotes and Tips
- Telemarketing
- Travel Authorization
- Values and Goals
- Wholesale Customer Tracking
[Update]:The databases are in R2's ODS13 format, to save you the trouble of conversion they are now available in ODS51 of R8.5. Still the design hasn't changed, but there is hope (Do you now understand what a circulare reference is
).
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When I got started with Notes back in 1992 I learned about the thing by taking some of these apps apart and cobbling pieces of them together to make other apps.
We never used any of them as is because our requirements were more complex but they helped create mindshare and inspired the creation of apps that did get built and used.
Even the list on it's own has value as an eye opening exercise but I think you have hit on a good idea.
Given that they are all so simple and that we all need to learn xPages why not turn them into equally simple proof of concept R8 apps.
This community could turn the lot around in a week - and that would tell a great story too!
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