I finally got around to listening to the Taking Notes Podcast number 27 about the upcoming release of Quickplace 8.
I'm glad to hear that IBM is putting a lot of thought and work into this release. Really, from my point of view there wasn't much new or of interest in the Team Workplace 8 over Quickplace 3 (I believe that the update changed the name and there was a bug fix or two, Extended Membership too). I haven't had a chance to really work Quickplace 7 out much yet. There's some good tweaks in there...the Editor access was definitely needed and I'm getting impatient about being able to use it, the doc type icons is a nice tweak too.
In the podcast, they mentioned a lot of new interesting features, and it sounds like they're holding a lot back. The standouts for me are the improved management interface, both for the system admin and for the managers of the individual Places. I'm really looking forward to hearing what info comes out at Collaboration University and if I get to Lotusphere 2007, maybe getting close-up hands-on time with it.
I haven't heard anything yet about something I've been wishing for since I started running Quickplace servers in 2.something (2.06 I think):
A user-accessuible/friendly listing of all of the Places on the server and some way to request access to the Place.
We've had the Place Catalog for a while now which has the info on all of the Places, but the database itself is a dirty tool for admins and developers and the server itself. There isn't even anything in OpenNTF or the Sandbox that addresses this functionality (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). Some orgs don't have access to their own Domino developers to write stuff like that...and frankly, I always thought it should have been part of the product all along. Sharepoint has it. :D
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