Skyboard - Software

Skyboard Software
Part of Earth Systems, Skyboard Software (circa 2006) Is a graphical tool suite that offers network collaboration boards which are driven and stored by a centralized database engine.
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Users can log into their local or remote server.
*Traffic Encryption is optional on login.
Users are allowed to create new boards and board elements at will.
*Read/Write access to databases are granted by network administrator.
Standard board elements are called seeds;
*buttons appear on mouse-over, giving versatile functionality.
*Seeds may be drop'd onto a board using the seed dropper tool (on left hand bar,) or by middle mouse click (wheel press)
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Buttons
*white box - new board
*link - to other boards.
*world - to web resource
*seed branch
*time-line
*GPS]/map co-ordinate
*click to enter text data
*process role
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Menu Buttons
*white sphere - New board.
*Spider - makes snapshot image of a boards rendering.
*Database Manager - Connect to various systems.
Tool bar
*Pointer tool
*Drawing tool
*Chat - click to focus, then type and see text appear around mouse cursor visible by others.
*ASCII painter
*Time-line
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Users Connected
Right Click
advanced options - more documentation needed.
Requirements
*Hardware
A nice Intel server will do for Small and medium enterprises and while P4's may work, much more current hardware is strongly recommended for any Medium-Large scale operations. This is true for Client & Server.
*Software
Microsoft Windows client machine & MsSQL08 Enterprise Server, for it's advantage of stored procedures.
*License Purchase
The software is private and for use only with a valid license key which may be ordered from the official website
Control over licensing is maintained by the Enterprise Collaboration Manager.
* Installation
Program & license management installation happens Via the Skyboard Updater application. Skyboard.exe is over 7MB in size and folder requires <50MB to >1GB drive space due to the board cache sizes.

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