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jcocking
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Apr 19, 2003, 8:51 AM

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Hello IT team,

I hope the move went successful. Hopefully you did not all move into separate offices. Offices are great for the ego, but bad for successful software development. If you have lived in a project war-room coding and developing you know what I mean.

During all moves at least one box will be lost. Just in-case it was the box that contained all the feature requests, I wanted to provide you a back up.

Here is a consolidate list of all my feature requests for AM:

Image Requirements:
1. Ability to reuse images(Medium). Provide the option to upload an image or pick an image from the upload directory
2. Ability to create thumbnails(High). Provide an option during image upload to define the use of auto thumbnail.
  1. Create the thumbnail at article creation and stored in a directory. (upload_thumbnail). This approach creates the thumbnail at article creation and not on the fly during article viewing (performance issues)
  2. Utilize the same image functions for the thumbnail. (ie right, left, center)
  3. Ability to use captions with a thumbnail
  4. There should be three options for displaying the thumbnail
    1. Only the thumbnail (***thumb1:position***)
    2. thumbnail with hyperlink to larger image (***thumburl1:position***)
    3. thumbnail with hyperlink to a customizable template that shows the image (***thumbpage1:position***)
  5. Define the template to use as a global setup
Article Requirements:
1. Ability to post articles to multiple categories(High).
  1. Each article will have a primary category
  2. Option to post article in secondary categories
2. Ability to link to other articles within an article(Medium).
  1. Create a view similar to the image upload, but with drop down boxes with all the articles. By selecting an article it will be defined as link1. Each selection would increment by one.
  2. Within the article be able to place ***link1:content to be hyperlinked***
Categories
1. Ability to define sort criteria on a category level(High)
  1. Able to define the sorting order and fields by category
  2. Defaults to the global sort order if not defined on a category level
2. Sub-categories(High). The ability to have multilevel categories. Need to be able to define to 3 levels deep. (loved the old am2 screenshot)
Style (Medium)
1. Remove all inline stylesheets from the templates and go to a common css file
2. Make the css file to be definable system wide as a setup option. Can use a provided template file or one provided by the user.

I provided a quick priority with each request (high or medium). With the list comes a thank you. You have a great product. Thank you for the good product QA. It is nice to know that when a release is put into production, I do not have to worry if it will work right.

jeff
Jeff Cocking
Lotus Elan (AM 1.38)
VoIP Phone Comparisons (AM 2.02)

Benjamin
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Apr 19, 2003, 4:03 PM

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Hi Jeff,

Phew! Quite the list. Fraser will no doubt be poring over them come Monday morning. I do appreciate you taking the time to condense and articulate your requests.

And thanks for the kind words concerning our move! The new office is a lot larger, but now we have an actual meeting room (very novel!) which is getting heavy use... :-)
Ben
interactivetools.com

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