Build up YOUR toolbar in Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 3

HE Xiao, User Experience Designer of Lotus Symphony  |  Jun 9, 2010 5:17 AM
Profile image for HE Xiao I think lots of you are familiar with toolbars in Lotus Symphony, where you can quickly access popular commands like Save, Open, Create Graphic... Long time ago, many users raised feedback to us that they'd like to build up a personalized toolbar by their preference --- good news is: it comes true since Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 3, we enabled "Toolbar Preferences" feature (as you may see, in previous releases, this entry menu is always disabled).

OK, Let's start! To make this happen, just right click toolbar, then click "Toolbar Preferences..." menu to open the preference page (see the snapshot at the end).

In the preference page, you can:

Decide to show/hide any toolbar in specified editor by default

Example: John doesn't like to see File bar open every time when launching Symphony Presentation, then it's easy to uncheck this bar under Presentation editor in "Categories" page accordingly -- that's it.

Decide to show/hide any command in specified toolbar

Example: Lucy likes to use "Font Name" command through toolbar, while currently it's hidden. To get it back, she needs to check the "Font Name" option in corresponding toolbar (Context Sensitive - Text Object), press OK, and it will magically show.

By the way, we've added "Font Name" and "Font Size" command in toolbar as lots guys requested, though it's default hidden due to real estate limits.

Adjust the command sequence in specified toolbar

Example: Eric wants to move "Print" command ahead of "Save" in Document to fit his sense. Now it's also easy to adjust, first select the "Print" command in "File" bar of Document editor, then click "Up" button in the dialog, next press "OK" to end the game.

Since this is a newly produced feature, we'd like to know your feedback (feelings, questions, new desires...) very much, just feel free to leave your comments in the following please.

7 Comments

  • Jose said on Jun 9, 2010 5:09 PM:

    There's no way, for example, to customize it like under OpenOffice. One feature I use most of time is to build a table and hide the borders of some cells inside it. In Symphony I've not found a easy way to do that.

    If you could add suport to basically any command in toolbar, it would be a welcome addition.

    Thanks

    Jose

  • user said on Jun 12, 2010 5:02 AM:

    ok

  • jake said on Jun 16, 2010 2:02 PM:

    right click and open a new window just to create a toolbar?

    just create a blank by right click on empty area->add toolbar and add buttons from drop down menu, preferably allowing to select several buttons at once.

  • tom said on Jun 24, 2010 8:29 PM:

    Good!

  • v said on Jun 25, 2010 3:19 AM:

    v

  • 6205 said on Jun 25, 2010 6:49 AM:

    Hey folks. You should seriously consider to publish better pictures from Symphony. Why you are showing us Windows XP pictures with those strange, ugly fonts? Show me some normal Windows 7 screenshots!

  • Jerry said on Apr 25, 2013 2:59 PM:

    I STRONGLY second Jose's suggestion.

    While I see "Create Rows", "Create Columns", "Shift Cells Down", "and "Shift Cells Right" buttons, I'm surprised to see no "Delete Rows" or "Delete Columns" buttons -- and frustrated that I cannot add them to the tool bar.
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