Foodle 3.3 New Features Rolled Out
Andreas Åkre Solberg
Foodle Groups
You may now organize your Foodle contacts in groups. This feature is part of the preparations for some ongoing work we do on cross-domain shared group definitions – you’ll hear more about that later.
On the Foodle front page, you’ll see a list of groups you are member of, and a link to manage (create) your own groups. Like this:
The group features are currently considered Beta.
Group management
The UI should be intuitive and allow you to create new groups, revisit the existing ones, and add members to groups.
You may only add members from your contact list, and your contact list is automatically generated based upon contacts that have responded to the same Foodles that you have responded to. If you need to add additional members, use the invite URL.
Group pages
Each group, will get its own group page. The group page contains a list of users, a list of shared files, and an group activity stream.
To make fooldes show up in the group activity stream, use the new group tab when creating a new Foodle to associate a Foodle with a specific group.
File sharing
The file sharing dropbox on a group page is experimental. It is using HTML 5 File and Drag and Drop API and works only in recent versions of Safari, Chrome and Firefox. Shared files are only accessible from the users in your group.
New activity stream
On the front page, you’ll noticed the new activity stream. It includes:
- Foodles you have created
- Foodles you have responded to
- Foodles you are invited to
- Foodles that are associated with groups you are member of
(the last one is new and very important).
The activty stream is sorted by recent activity in each Foodle.
Torsten Kersting
it seems as if the editing of an anonymous answer by following the link sent out via mail only works if cookies are allowed. If cookies are disabled the link leads to the foodle start page.
Cheers,
Torsten
Andreas Åkre Solberg
> it seems as if the editing of an anonymous answer by following the link sent out via mail only works if cookies are allowed. If cookies are disabled the link leads to the foodle start page.
That is true. If you have disabled cookies (is there really anyone doing that?) you will not be able to modify answers you have added manually.
Does it work to add an anonymous response without cookies in the first place? I think that should be possible.
Andreas
Torsten Kersting
Am 07.06.2011 um 07:45 schrieb Andreas Åkre Solberg:
> On 6. juni2011, at 14:11, Torsten Kersting wrote:
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>> it seems as if the editing of an anonymous answer by following the link sent out via mail only works if cookies are allowed. If cookies are disabled the link leads to the foodle start page.
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> That is true. If you have disabled cookies (is there really anyone doing that?) you will not be able to modify answers you have added manually.
As it turns out many of our users seem to have a preconfigured system that deletes all cookies after closing the browser. Im not sure if putting a text in the anonymous mail that they need to keep this cookie would help, as those people usually dont know how to.
> Does it work to add an anonymous response without cookies in the first place? I think that should be possible.
No, it does not work.
Cheers,
Torsten
Andreas Åkre Solberg
On 7. juni2011, at 09:11, Torsten Kersting wrote:
> As it turns out many of our users seem to have a preconfigured system that deletes all cookies after closing the browser. Im not sure if putting a text in the anonymous mail that they need to keep this cookie would help, as those people usually dont know how to.
But if the cookies are deleted when the browser is closing that should not impact the experience when the browser is open, should it?
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>> Does it work to add an anonymous response without cookies in the first place? I think that should be possible.
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> No, it does not work.
Thanks for reporting; I've added this to my todolist to review this.
Andreas
Torsten Kersting
Am 07.06.2011 um 09:43 schrieb Andreas Åkre Solberg:
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> On 7. juni2011, at 09:11, Torsten Kersting wrote:
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>> As it turns out many of our users seem to have a preconfigured system that deletes all cookies after closing the browser. Im not sure if putting a text in the anonymous mail that they need to keep this cookie would help, as those people usually dont know how to.
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> But if the cookies are deleted when the browser is closing that should not impact the experience when the browser is open, should it?
No, as long as the browser is open everything is fine. However the anonymous user gets a mail stating that he can still edit his answer by following the link in that mail which leads him to the foodle start page instead of to his answer or to the poll.
Cheers,
Torsten