Claims
- 1. Method for using Microsoft Office documents in a place in collaboration space, comprising:
creating a document file using Microsoft Office; converting said document to a hypertext markup language (html) file; and saving said document file and said html file on a page in collaboration space with said html file displayed in read mode and said document file displayed in edit mode.
- 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
at said browser, dragging and dropping said document file into said place as a template file; and creating from said template file a form.
- 3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the steps of:
using said form to create a new Microsoft document.
- 4. Method for uploading a document into a place in collaboration space, comprising the steps of:
creating a document file including web form fields; saving said document file; importing said document file to said place; upon importing said document into said place, converting said document into a web file containing hyperlinks that point to web pages.
- 5. The method of claim 4, said document being a Microsoft Office document and said web file being a hypertext markup language (html) file.
- 6. The method of claim 5, including the step of including web form fields in said document file by selecting field icons from a web tools toolbar.
- 7. The method of claim 6, said toolbar including checkbox control, option or radio button control, drop down box control, listbox control, textbox control, text area control, submit control, submit with image control, reset control, hidden control, and password control.
- 8. Method for importing a document file into a place in collaboration space, comprising the steps of:
presenting at a browser an interface window to said place including a new selector; responsive to user selection of said new selector and an import option, displaying an import scene with an empty upload control; dragging and dropping said document file to said upload control; and responsive to receiving said document file in said upload control,
converting said document file to hypertext files; displaying a document file icon in said upload control; and importing said hypertext files into said place.
- 9. The method of claim 8, further comprising the steps:
responsive to said user publishing said document file to said collaboration space, uploading to a collaboration space server said document file and said hypertext files.
- 10. The method of claim 9, said document file being a presentation file comprising a plurality of slides.
- 11. The method of claim 10, further comprising the steps of:
displaying said slides in a same page together with previous, next, and zoom buttons.
- 12. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of, responsive to selection of said zoom button, displaying a larger version of a current slide also including next and previous buttons.
- 13. The method of claim 11, said presentation file being a Microsoft PowerPoint file, and said hypertext files being hypertext markup language (html) files.
- 14. The method of claim 9, further comprising the steps of:
preparing to display a plurality of data objects contained in said document file by:
preparing and importing into a common page at said place a separate hypertext file for each said data object, together with any included images and support files, modifying said hypertext files to link to next and previous data objects within said document file; and at read time, responsive to user selection of said next or previous control, issuing a uniform resource locator (url) to load and display a respective next or previous data object in sequence.
- 15. The method of claim 14, said data objects being presentation slides or spreadsheet worksheets.
- 16. The method of claim 15, said presentation slides being Microsoft PowerPoint slides, said spreadsheet worksheets being Excel worksheets, said hypertext files being hypertext markup language (html) files, and said common page being a Notes document.
- 17. A system for uploading a document into a place in collaboration space, comprising:
an editor for creating a document file including web form fields; a storage device for saving said document file; an upload control for importing said document file to said place; a server, upon importing said document into said place, for converting said document into a web file containing hyperlinks that point to web pages.
- 18. A system for importing a document file into a place in collaboration space, comprising:
a browser interface window to said place including a new selector; a storage for storing said document file; an import scene; an upload control; said import scene being responsive to user selection of said new selector and an import option for displaying said upload control; dragging and dropping said document file from said storage to said upload control; and said upload control being responsive to receiving said document file for,
converting said document file to hypertext files; displaying a document file icon in said upload control; and importing said hypertext files into said place.
- 19. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for uploading a document into a place in collaboration space, said method steps comprising:
creating a document file including web form fields; saving said document file; importing said document file to said place; upon importing said document into said place, converting said document into a web file containing hyperlinks that point to web pages.
- 20. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for importing a document file into a place in collaboration space, said method steps comprising:
presenting at a browser an interface window to said place including a new selector; responsive to user selection of said new selector and an import option, displaying an import scene with an empty upload control; dragging and dropping said document file to said upload control; and responsive to receiving said document file in said upload control,
converting said document file to hypertext files; displaying a document file icon in said upload control; and importing said hypertext files into said place.
- 21. A computer program product or computer program element for uploading a document into a place in collaboration space, according to the steps of:
creating a document file including web form fields; saving said document file; importing said document file to said place; upon importing said document into said place, converting said document into a web file containing hyperlinks that point to web pages.
CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The following U.S. patent applications, filed concurrently herewith, are assigned to the same assignee hereof and contain subject matter related to the subject matter of the present application.
[0002] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0021 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/______, entitled “Method and System for Creating a Theme of a Place to be Used as a Template for Other Places”;
[0003] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0022 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/______, entitled “Method and System for Automatically Accessing, Processing, and Managing the Data In a Place”;
[0004] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0023 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/______, entitled “Method and System for Importing HTML Forms”;
[0005] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0025 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/______, entitled “Method and System for Creating a Place Type to Be Used as a Template for Other Places”;
[0006] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0026 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/______, entitled “Method and System for Identifying and Displaying Information That Is New or Has Been Updated In a Place”;
[0007] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0027 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/______, entitled “Method and System for Providing Task Information in a Place”;
[0008] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0028 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/______, entitled “Method and System for Providing Synchronous Communication and Person Awareness In a Place”;
[0009] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0029 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/______, entitled “Method and System for Providing a Separate Browser Window With Information From the Main Window In a Simpler Format”;
[0010] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0030 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/______, entitled “Method and System for Allowing In Place Editing of Office Documents In a Place”.
[0011] The present application is also an improvement upon the following copending, previously filed applications, assigned to the same assignee:
[0012] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Interconnecting Secure Rooms”, assignee docket LO999044;
[0013] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Dynamic Management of Web Site”, assignee docket LO999045;
[0014] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Presentation of Room Navigation”, assignee docket LO999046;
[0015] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Independent Room Security Management”, assignee docket LO99047;
[0016] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Dynamically Generating Viewable Graphics”, assignee docket LO999048;
[0017] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Dynamic Browser Management of Web Site”, assignee docket LO999049;
[0018] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Room Decoration and Inheritance”, assignee docket LO999051;
[0019] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Online/Offline Uninterrupted Updating of Rooms in Collaboration Space”, assignee docket LO999052;
[0020] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Client Replication of Collaboration Space”, assignee docket LO999053;
[0021] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Browser Creation and Maintenance of Forms”, assignee docket LO999054;
[0022] Ser. No. 09/______, entitled “System and Method for Browser Definition of Workflow Documents”, assignee docket LO999055.
[0023] The above-identified patent applications are incorporated herein by reference.