“Mult- ” : Multi-Platform Electronic Organizer with Client “Mult- ” : Multi-Platform Electronic Organizer with Client  Kogan Daniel  Kostas Matvey Software Laboratory Supervisor:  Yan Futerman Performers: Winter 2002

Project Goals  Usual mail client capabilities –Send/Read/Reply and Forward options –Attachments –Automatic signature  Electronic address book with "find" operations  Import/export of the address book  Calendar, events and reminder  Meetings organizer and special meeting messages  The application should be platform-independent.

3 folders for different purposes. Each folder has the features:  Sorting messages by any field  Already-read messages appear in gray.  Several messages may be opened simultaneously. Switching between and Scheduler mode windows Configuring the application General View The main window (in mode) * All the screenshots were taken from the application running on a Windows platform. The application was also successfully tested on a Linux platform. Screenshots of a Linux-running program appear in a project book.

Sending/Receiving Reading Mail window. Features :  Reply/Forward : opens a new composition window, and automatically inserts recipients, subject and text.  Attachments : pressing on “save attachment” will open the “Save” dialog, standard to the specific OS. Number and size of attachments is unlimited. Mail Composition window. Features :  Multiple recipients are allowed in each category (separated by “,”).  Recipients addresses can be fetched from the Address Book (invoked by pressing on the labels To: / Cc: / Bcc: )  Attachments : unlimited number of attachments is allowed. Adding is done via the “Open” dialog, standard to the specific OS.  When sent, the message will be automatically saved to the “Out” folder.

Address Book Modifying the address book:  New Entry: the user can store the following details on a specific entry :  Changing Entry: any detail of an entry can later be changed. Importing/Exporting the address book  The entire Address Book database can be stored (exported) to a file on disk, and can later be loaded (imported) from that file by the application on the same or different workstation. Searching the address book  Quick search: as the user types the wanted full name, the first matching entry is selected in the entries list.  Smart search: the application searches and returns the entries that match all the specified fields (name, e- mail, nick, address).

Modifying the address book:  Adding a new event:  Events are reminded T minutes before the scheduled time, or at start-up if they were missed. The value of T is set in the configuration window. Meetings  Sending a meeting is very similar to sending an ordinary mail. It appears in “Out” folder when sent, and in “In” folder when received.  In addition, when meeting is sent, sender’s application and the applications of all the receivers will automatically add an appropriate event to the scheduler.  Users of clients other than Mult- will “see” the Meeting as an ordinary message. Scheduler