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Adobe LiveCycle Café

ABOUT LIVECYCLE CAFé

LiveCycle Café provides the following plug-in modules and capabilities:

• News—Highlights important news and alerts about LiveCycle and other enterprise relevant Adobe software.
• Search—A dedicated tool searching across multiple targeted sites focusing on LiveCycle related content.
• RSS Reader—A feature-rich content aggregator that lets you share stories via AIM, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, email and more without copying and pasting, or dragging and dropping.
• Notes—Saves search results and other text snippets for viewing later, whether you are online or offline.
• Live Chat—Provides instant support for pre-sales questions and technical issues for LiveCycle.
• Events—Allows you to quickly locate upcoming LiveCycle events in your area or online.
• Forums—A direct link into the latest information found in the LiveCycle section of Adobe Forums.
  

For more information, check out the LiveCycle Café overview presentation.

TIMELY NEWS

Updated frequently, the home page news provides proactive outreach and alerts for partners, developers, and users of LiveCycle. It also provides the latest news related to product issues that might affect your development activities. Note that news items differ based on your login credentials.

Figure 1. LiveCycle Café News

TARGETED SEARCH

Search through the best LiveCycle related content on the web with a single click. We constantly scour the web for the latest/greatest sites that pertain to LiveCycle, and update the search list remotely; when you re-launch LiveCycle Café, you could notice new sites that will now be searched for you. View the results in context with the full web browser capabilities, or jump to your default browser to continue your research. Any URL, page name, and text snippet can be saved as notes for future reference.

Figure 2. LiveCycle Café Search

RSS READER

It lets you read all your news in one place, and share it all in one place, too. With built-in support for over ten different ways to share stories, all you have to do is click on an article to start it cascading through your social network. It comes with a dynamically updated list of default feeds and blogs to help you surface information about developing with Adobe LiveCycle. You can add or remove any feeds you want to.

Here are the RSS Reader's features:

• Share stories right from LiveCycle Café. Built-in support for AIM, Twitter, and email (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, or your default email client)
• Post articles to Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Newsvine, MySpace, Google Bookmarks, and Windows Live Favorites
• Create Smart Topics with keywords you're interested in. Only posts containing those keywords will show up in your Smart Topics
• See Notifications when LiveCycle Café finds new posts. You can also turn on notifications just for specific Smart Topics
• View an article's summary, or switch over to Site View to see the entire web page in the integrated browser
• Organize your feeds any way you want using folders
• Automatic categorization by topic and author
• Automatic feed resolution. Rather than tracking down and entering a feed URL, just put in the site's normal URL and LiveCycle Café will automatically find and aggregate its feed
• Realtime search across all feeds
• OPML import and export
• Content from feeds can be saved as Notes for future reference

Figure 3. LiveCycle Café RSS Reader

NOTES

Leveraging the power of Adobe AIR, the Notes plug-in allows you to save any URL, page name, and text snippet for future reference. The local AIR database is persistent, meaning that you can view Notes even if you are offline. For convenience, you can import and export notes for sharing with colleagues or other computers you may have.

LIVE CHAT

This plug-in leverages the powerful Adobe Flash Collaboration Service that allows instant communication with Adobe LiveCycle experts from the Enterprise Technical Marketing team and Partner Support Solution Engineers. The goal of Live Chat is to provide rapid resolution to pre-sales issues and early development questions. Please note that this plug-in is only available to authorized partners or Adobe employees.

Figure 4. LiveCycle Café Chat

EVENTS

Dynamically filtered from Adobe.com, the Events plug-in lists upcoming LiveCycle related live events such as conferences, trade shows, and city tours, as well as online events including eSeminars and OnDemand seminars.

COMMUNITY FORUMS

This plug-in provides a view into the LiveCycle section of the Adobe Forums. Adobe Forums provide an interactive online environment for vibrant discussion of Adobe LiveCycle and related topics, where Adobe users exchange questions, offer ideas and suggestions, and share tips and tricks. Forums are a great source for education and troubleshooting, and are an alternative to Adobe’s official customer support channels.

PREFERENCES

In the Preferences area you can choose to check for updates to LiveCycle Café, and you may turn off plug-ins that do not interest you. Note that the Live Chat plug-in is only available to authorized partners and employees of Adobe Systems.

Figure 5. LiveCycle Café Preferences

Login Dialogue box

Customers and Guests can log-in by selecting the Customer/Guest radio button and clicking the "Login" button. Adobe authorized partners can log-in by selecting the Adobe Employee/Partner button, entering your Adobe Partner Connection Portal access credentials and clicking the "Login" button. Adobe employees can log-in by selecting the same Adobe Employee/Partner button, entering your Adobe LDAP credentials (do not enter "@adobe.com") and clicking the "Login" button.

Figure 6. LiveCycle Café Log-in dialogue box

FEEDBACK

Please help us improve Adobe LiveCycle Café—we'd love to hear from you. Provide comments and suggestions by clicking on the Feedback icon at top right and tell us what you think, and share any bugs you see or features you don't see

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