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We are happy to start today, almost three months before the eyeos 2.0 release, the presentation of some 2.0 apps. From now on, each week we want to give you the main ideas and features of  one of the new eyeos 2.0 applications.

eyeDocs 2

eyeDocs 2 is the word processor of eyeos 2.0. With a completely new design it will be similar in features than the desktop, traditional office suites, with an important difference: facilitating collaborative work.

Multi-user Text editor

The main and greatest feature of eyeDocs 2 is the collaboration mode, to allow more than one user to work on the same document at the same time, using the collaborative services inside eyeos 2.0 kernel. The main features of the collaboration mode are:

• A color assigned to each user editing the document to see who is working on every zone of the document.
• A left bar with comments: Every user can add comments to a specific zone of the document. For example, in the educational environment, the teacher can share with the students an original document with his personal comments.

• You can chat with other users while you are working on your document
• Automatic autosave.
• There are three roles for each document:
  • Owner: creates the document and has the rights to do everything on that document. Can change the status of the document.
  • Editor: can edit everything inside the document. Can not remove the document.
  • Viewers: Can only view the document and add/delete his own comments, but can’t edit the document.
• There are also two status modes for each document:
  • Edit mode: full edition features for all users.
  • Locked: the document is locked by the owner. No one can edit it until he owner changes its status.

We have worked to avoid problems between users who are editing/creating the same document. That’s possible with an “edition area”.

An edition area is composed of “5 lines typing block” (5LB).  At the side of every 5LB we have a bubble with the user name:

If another user clicks on your 5LB while you are working on it, he starts editing and not writing. The difference on editing and not writing is that when a user is editing he can only use a different 5LB. When the user leaves the writing point, the system rearranges the text.

Creating a table we see a similar situation: Just by clicking in a cell, column or row of the table the zone can’t be edited by other users. Your assigned color is used to identify your edition area.

As you can see, the collaborative mode of the new eyeDocs 2 will be amazing. But it won’t be the only new disruptive feature. For example, it  supports many export formats such as HTML, Open Office, PDF, RTF, DOC, DOCX and TXT.

There are different options on page size, and the user will be able to select different sizes such as A4, letter, legal, etc.

Finally, there will be options to check the spelling in different languages and translate the document to other languages.