HELLO WORLD,

exactly one month (and 3 days, edited) after the first post, we’re showing you again how Tabbles Web is coming along: now you can see and open a real tag-tree and see file paths (we’ll make it prettier later on), see here:

We have know most of the back-end (with most of the file and tags sorting logic) ready and we’re working on the front-end.

A major changes from last time is the technology we’re using for GUI: after we began building it on Xamarin/Ooui we got stuck the first time we tried to call a REST API from Xamarin.Forms (see the problem here). Because of that, we switched to using asp.net and MVC5: the development  is proving to be an order of magnitude easier than Xamarin as well as much faster to deploy and test. We’re planning to embed this into a mobile app using Cordova later on (see this tutorial).

What will Tabbles Web do?

1. If Tabbles Web is hosted on a company’s server and has access to a shared drive, it will allow the users (inside and/or outside the company) to download selected files, making it a publishing tool. We’ll have measures in place to disallow misuse, e.g. download files that shouldn’t be shared. We’ll try and figure out a way to allow this option also with the Tabbles Web hosted on our server (using a VPN or something).
2. For files stored locally, Tabbles Web will initially just provide you the path to the file (some C:\path\file.pdf) that you will have to paste into the file manager manually. We’re investigating developing a Chrome App to allow Tabbles Web to access the file system, using this Chrome API.
3. Along with the option 2, we’ll include the possibility to setup Dropbox (and similar) folders, so that you can open synchronized files on any platform.