Developing Applications with Microsoft Office Groove 12

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Developing ApplicationswithMicrosoft Office
Groove 12
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Contents subject to changeThis information
applies to Microsoft Office Groove 12 Beta 1
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Microsoft Office Groove

• Background

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Groove Overview

• A collaborative work environment that meets the
  needs of todays teams
• Work in context anywhere, anytime, with anyone
• Employees, customers and partners work together
  in one place
• Team members work online or offline, in or out of
  the office
• Customizable and extensible to meet each
  projects requirements
• Keep teams in synch automatically efficiently
• Just work changes are sent to team members
• Alerts keep members aware of new content and
  activity
• Presence awareness and real-time tools foster
  collaboration
• Increase business speed agility without the
  cost
• Business teams save time and complete projects
  faster
• Cross-organizational collaboration costs are
  lowered
• Encryption helps protect project data on PCs and
  networks

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What you can do with Groove

• Work dynamically with team members in a team
  workspace environment
• Create and customize workspaces quickly, right on
  the desktop
• Invite others without worrying about servers or
  security
• Work online, occasionally-connected or offline
  with one tool
• Keep your team in synch automatically so you
  spend more time working, less time coordinating

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About Groove

• Groove is
• Part of the Microsoft Office System
• An application that integrates with other Office
  products
• A rich client that uses services to bridge work
  boundaries
• An extensible platform that supports a broad
  range of team requirements

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Office 12 Groove Enhancements

• SharePoint integration
• Synchronize SharePoint libraries with Groove
  workspaces
• Work on documents in Groove and publish to
  SharePoint
• InfoPath 12 integration
• Import InfoPath 12 forms into Groove workspaces
• Collect and track structured data
• Communicator 2005 and 12 integration
• View Communicator contacts from Groove
• Take action on Communicator contacts
• Support for 28 languages

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Customer Challenges Custom and/or Web
applications
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Customer ChallengesManual processes
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Dynamic Teamwork
Before Groove
Employee
Employee
Customer
Offsite Employee
Partner
Disconnected Employee
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Dynamic Teamwork
After Groove
Customer
Offsite Employee
Partner
Disconnected Employee
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How Groove WorksA Hybrid Architecture
Firewall
Employee
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Servers Services

• Groove 12 Management Server
• Provides centralized management and control of
  Groove deployments
• License deployment, policy settings, domain
  management, reporting, etc.
• Also available as an MS-hosted enterprise service
• Groove 12 Relay Server
• Brokers indirect connections between Groove
  clients
• Handles firewall traversal, online/offline use,
  WAN presence awareness, bandwidth optimization
• Also available as an MS-hosted enterprise service
• Groove 12 Data Bridge
• Web-services based integration platform
• Can integrate Groove workspace data with back-end
  systems, applications and data repositories

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Groove Applications
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Groove Applications

• Ad-hoc team workspaces
• Teams select available tools for their own needs
• Workspace structure (tools) can change over time
• User-customized forms-based activities
• Team members modify Forms to suit specific needs
• Example PRINCE2 extensions to standard Issue
  Tracker
• Custom forms-based activities
• Create Forms tools for specific needs
• Save tool as template publish for users
• Template-based project workspaces
• Save workspace as template publish template for
  re-use
• External access to Groove data
• Developers build standalone applications using
  Groove APIs
• Developers extend existing applications using
  Groove APIs
• Automated workspace delivery
• Systems integration using Groove APIs and Groove
  Data Bridge

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Goals

• Provide highly mobile, interactive, secure
  workspaces
• Users in control
• Ad-hoc workspace creation and management
• Secure cross-organization workspace membership
• Rich experience
• Presence and notification everywhere
• Flexible to meet variable user needs
• General-purpose standard tools
• In-Groove user-accessible application development
  (Forms)

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Goals

• Integrate with enterprise requirements
• Enterprise-scale provisioning, management,
  policies, audit
• Centrally-specified applications
• Example data schemas
• Enterprise data in the hands of mobile users
  teams
• Create workspaces when needed
• Invite people into workspaces when needed

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Developing Applications

• Groove Forms tool
• In-Groove forms development environment
• Custom team collaboration applications
• Groove InfoPath Forms
• Build forms in Microsoft Office InfoPath
• Import into Groove for team data gathering
• Groove Web Services
• Standards-based programming
• External applications access to Groove
• Groove Data Bridge
• Server platform for systems/process integration
• Highly scalable Groove Web Services server

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Custom Applications

• Groove Forms tool
• Runtime and Designer both inside Groove
• Simple or sophisticated
• Data gathering and team collaboration
• Fields, forms, views
• Web-style UI programmability DHTML, CSS,
  scripting

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Custom Applications

• Groove InfoPath Forms tool
• Design forms with Microsoft Office InfoPath
• Embed forms in Groove workspace
• Users require InfoPath
• Create, read, and update data
• Collections sort, view, report, and analyse
• Ideal for structured data gathering applications
• XML data can be integrated with enterprise systems

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Custom Applications

• Groove Web Services API
• Rich programmatic access to Groove data, services
• Completely standards-based SOAP, WSDL, XSD
• Server is the Groove client centralized server
  is the Groove Data Bridge
• Applications
• Connect existing desktop applications to Groove
  data
• Connect enterprise systems with Groove

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Custom Applications

• Groove Data Bridge
• The Groove data tier server
• Scalable workspace member
• Scalable Web Services server
• Applications
• Central integration point
• With SharePoint lists, document libraries
• With other enterprise databases systems
• Manage workspace lifecycle create deliver
  workspaces as part of a business process

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Groove Forms
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Groove Forms
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Groove Forms

• Customizable tool for workgroup apps
• Forms Designer
• Fields, Forms, Views
• Forms UI
• Distributed database
• Records
• Parent/Response relationships

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Groove Forms Fields

• Simple field types
• Text, Multi-Line
• Numeric, Currency
• Checkboxes, Option Buttons, Dropdown, Listbox
• Extended field types
• Rich Text
• Attachments
• Contact
• Others Script Buttons, layout elements

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Groove Forms Views

• Multiple views per tool
• Easy to build views
• Select columns (scalar, richtext, etc)
• Select sorting, grouping, defaults
• Add selection conditions
• Display only records from selected forms
• Display only records matching particular criteria
• User-visible views
• Hidden views lookup fields, lookup script

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Programmability

• Scripting in a Form
• User Interface DHTML CSS Script
• Add/change/move/show/hide form elements
• Dynamic validation (on UI events)
• Record data Script Forms API
• Read/write fields on records
• Navigate related records
• Send IM, navigate
• Non-record data (persistent non-persistent)
• Macros (script)
• Web Services external access

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Design Changes

• Your Forms design is part of the workspace
• When design is updated,all workspace members
  receive the changes
• Design management facilities
• Save Tool as Template (GTA)
• Save Workspace as Template (GSA)
• Replace Design

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Groove Forms
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Groove InfoPath Forms
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Groove InfoPath Forms
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Groove InfoPath Forms

• InfoPath rich, XML-based data collection
• Include centralized definitions of XML schema
• Simple bridge to enterprise SOA systems
• InfoPath forms within Groove
• Consistency of data structures
• Ease of use in varied environments
• Distributed data capture, collection, reporting
• Bridge to enterprise systems

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Forms and InfoPath Forms
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Groove Web Services
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Groove Web Services

• Groove is a web services server
• http//localhost9080/GWS/Groove/ltservicegt
• SOAP access to Groove services
• Accounts, Identities, Contacts
• Presence / Awareness, Messaging
• Workspaces, Tools, Data (CRUD)
• Local UI (navigate, open dialogs)
• Developer kit provides
• WSDL, XSD
• Code samples, Documentation

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GWS Applications

• Local access to Groove
• Local data integration
• Adding Groove services to existing applications
• Remote access to Groove
• Specialized applications server-based
• Security
• Secret request key in SOAP header
• Request keys in registry HKCU

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Custom app Groove Services

• ISV productDicodemyGForce.CRM
• Collaborativecontact informationmanager

http//www.dicodemy.net/ProductsAndServices/GForce
CRM.aspx
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Custom app Groove Services

• ISV productToucanReporter
• Structuredreportingon Groove data

http//www.infopatterns.net/Products/Toucanreporte
r.html
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Groove Data Bridge

• Groove Data Bridge Groove data server
• Always-On
• Always-Connected
• Privileged connections host in data center
• Scalable workspace member
• Thousands of workspaces
• Scalable GWS server
• Optimized Web services HTTP stack

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Groove Data Bridge
Groove native workspace communications (SSTP)
over port 2492, 443, 80
Employee
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Groove Data Bridge Integration
Employee
Groove native communications (SSTP) over port
2492, 443, 80
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Casahl ecKnowledge

• Third-Party Companion Product Casahl
• Off-the-shelf record data synchronization
• Reduce or eliminate controller development
• Many data connectors available
• Scheduled synchronization jobs
• XML-RPC API for custom controllers
• Create synchronization targets and jobs
• Trigger synchronization, query job status