Platform/Software Requirements
Our prototype was built for Chrome browsers on Windows computers. The page is a fixed size, 1200 x 737 pixels. The page is intended to fit on a large screen, so that you don't need either horizontal or vertical scrollbars from the browser.
Instructions
Go to CollabDesk. You will already be logged in as 'Sally'.
Description
Note: We used a javascript 'backend' to pre-load static messages, so if you refresh the page, any changes you've made or actions you've done will be lost.
What Should Work:
- Clicking on a message in the left 'browse' pane should open that message for reading on the right.
- Search queries will search the database of messages by their tags, titles, and text, and the titles of the matching messages will be shown.
- Creating a new message or replying to a message.
What Shouldn't Work:
- The down-chevron button in the Create pane has not been implemented to allow us to keep fixed sizing on the prototype.
- Searching by other things like author and date has not been implemented yet.
- Logging in/out.
- There's no scrollbar for the 'read message' pane yet, so adding an inordinate number of replies will cause them to spill out the pane.
- When a reply is added to a message, hashtags may be duplicated.
- Messages don't go from 'unread' to 'read'.
- Clearing the search automatically (you have to erase your search query instead)
- The first reply you try to submit may not work- this feature is still being debugged.