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.