Knowledge is Power

Questions I ask myself

Suggestions for Microsoft Office Outlook 2010

I will make it simple, but there are two suggestions that I have.

First- There should be an option to allow users to see the amount of total mail in a folder (example: Inbox (200) and then directly next to that when the user hovers over the 200, it will show them how many are new (example: **new** (2)

Second- There should be a shortcut to defer updates, such as in Access there is a checkbox.  I feel it is important to have this option/shortcut because those of us who have massive amounts of email and risk the program (not responding) need to defer the auto suggest.  Example

 

Say I want to do a search for themes, now I know themes only appears in 3 emails (for the sake of this argument assume this is true)  When I start to type t h e, the auto suggest feature automatically starts searching for all mail that contains the letters T H E.  I have had this happen a lot, especially when I am searching for a specific item and don't remember the exact phrase.

 

My suggestion is to allow users the option of either 

A.  Deferring the updates (halt the auto suggest)
B.  Make it an option, as in a checkbox when you search.

 

I hope this gets to Microsoft because Office 2010 is already herecoming soon.

 

Page Monitor suggestion (Enhancement)

Hello, I was wondering if you were planning on creating a sidebar version of the page monitor extension.  I find that this would be extremely helpful to monitor pages, while visiting other pages.  Currently the problem is that users cannot simultaneously do this, because when they click out of the extension, it does not stay.  As a result, the user (ie, myself) has to keep clicking on the page monitor icon each time that I would like to check if a site has changed.  I don't mean to ramble, but I feel strongly about this concept and Kudos to you for creating such a great extension.

Question regarding updated application (Excel)

 Recently I asked a question about Excel Web Add-In to the MSDN staff, here it is:

 I have Office 2010 Beta and I have wondered when you will make an Excel 2010 Web Data Add-In for it.  I have been missing out on some great features, now that the feature to import stocks is now removed from Excel.  Please let me know when this will be done.

Now it is your turn, we need this to be updated as soon as possible, it has been almost 2 years.

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P.S. Blake Handler, I will send you a message too.

(Update) Hover Function implementation

So, I just got done talking with Enrico, the creator of Napkee and he showed me how to finally implement the .hover function into Mockups.

UPDATE-- Flex implementation link was broken, but I fixed it.

[2:41:01 PM] Jon: Could you walk me through the syntax please, I am curious

[2:41:26 PM] Enrico Berti: well

[2:41:38 PM] Enrico Berti: the canvas i just put a custom ID of channelList

[2:41:46 PM] Enrico Berti: and a init status of hidden

[2:42:08 PM] Enrico Berti: on the link I wrote the main code

[2:42:21 PM] Enrico Berti: that is

[2:42:22 PM] Enrico Berti: $("#channelsLink").hover(function(){$("#channelList").slideDown();},function(){$("#channelList").slideUp();});

[2:42:33 PM] Enrico Berti: so basically, the jQuery function .hover

[2:42:38 PM] Enrico Berti: takes 2 parameters

[2:42:40 PM] Jon: ok

[2:42:46 PM] Enrico Berti: that are the 2 functions that are called

[2:42:58 PM] Enrico Berti: when the mouse is over, and when the mouse goes out

[2:43:08 PM] Enrico Berti: let's say that in pseudo code

[2:43:21 PM] Enrico Berti: it's $("#channelsLink").hover(functionA, functionB);

[2:43:35 PM] Jon: gotcha

[2:43:38 PM] Enrico Berti: function A in this case is

[2:43:52 PM] Enrico Berti: function(){

$("#channelList").slideDown();

}

[2:43:58 PM] Enrico Berti: and B has the slideUp

[2:44:28 PM] Jon: So does it need two parameters or can I just have it do one

[2:45:06 PM] Enrico Berti: also one

[2:45:17 PM] Enrico Berti: you can write for example

[2:45:26 PM] Enrico Berti: $("#channelsLink").hover(function(){$("#channelList").slideDown();});

[2:45:35 PM] Enrico Berti: this makes it slidedown when on hover

[2:45:43 PM] Enrico Berti: but nothing happens when you go out with the mouse

[2:45:51 PM] Jon: perfect

 

 I also had some other questions for him toward the end of our chat regarding the following:

[2:57:29 PM] Jon: 1st, Will you post the syntax for flex implementation, 2nd, does the previous code work with any function, 3rd and most importantly, is there a .slideright and .slideleft function

the following are notes from his explanation, so that others can start using Napkee and Mockups interchangeably.

Here are his answers to the 3 questions

Answer 1

[3:01:01 PM] Enrico Berti: 1) well, you will need to code the flex counterpart since Napkee does not generate code like in the web part

The hyperlink towards the top of this post is what he came up with

Answer 2

Yes

I will have to play around with this a little bit and post my findings as well.

Answer 3

[3:03:14 PM] Enrico Berti: yes, it's possible

         The link to his findings are on the Jquery site, I can't believe that I missed it http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Effects/Slide