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Last edited Apr 30, 2011

Instant Productivity Gains

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Painlessly migrate your existing files to Tricia

  • Access Tricia files and directories like any other shared volume (network drive) from your desktop (see File and Directory Sharing).
  • Use your Tricia login and password to access Tricia as a shared volume.
  • Move the directory tree with your existing files to Tricia (drag & drop).
  • You and your colleagues can use these Tricia directories and files from the desktop as before:
    • create, open and save documents of any type with any application.
    • rename, copy, move, delete files and directories using the Windows explorer (including drag&drop). 

Immediately start to enjoy the productivity benefits of Tricia

  • Access all files also throgh a web browser or from a mobile device (after login).
  • Use full-text search with auto-completion to find your file much more easily.
  • Assign tags to files and directories to categrize them by topic, customer, project, type or time without being limited to a single directory hierarchy.
  • Create links from wiki pages or blog posts to files and directories to create additional navigation structures for users of these files. You could for example link a customer page with all presentations and offers created for this customer.
  • Add descriptions to files and directories (e.g. citation information, meta data) which can also contain embedded links to other Tricia content.
  • Tricia automatically maintains the consistency of all of these links (e.g. if you rename or delete content items).
  • If you overwrite or delete an existing file, Tricia keeps a backup copy of the original version with an indication who deleted the file when. You can restore this version at a later point in time, if required.
  • See a history of all past changes to your content. 
  • Consider to share some of your content with individuals or r teams in your enterprise or over the internet. (see Configurable Access Control Policies).

Import additional structured and unstructured content as hybrid wiki pages or blogs

  • Import wordpress blog posts and blog pages as Tricia blogs.
  • Subscribe to RSS and ATOM  feeds to automatically import their content to Tricia.
  • Import HTML, Word, Excel ,... as wiki pages.
  • Import CSV, XML and ECore files as hybrid wiki pages.
  • Use Tricia plugins (also developed by third parties) to import specific data files as Tricia content (e.g. Mindmaps).

Consider to convert business-critical documents into hybrid wiki pages

Hybrid wiki pages are frequently better suited for (cross-) enterprise collaboration scenarios than traditional office documents:

  • Wiki pages can be viewed and edited with any browser and on any device.
  • Large documents can be broken down into more manageable and meaningful entities that can be edited, linked, categorized, ... individually
  • Discussions can be attached to individual wiki pages.
  • Wiki pages automatically keep a version of who changed what and when.
  • Wiki pages can be incrementally enhanded with structured information and consistency rules (see Hybrid Wiki Collaboration).

 

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