EditGrid

Infobox Software
name = EditGrid



caption = EditGrid
developer = Team and Concepts
released =
frequently_updated = yes
programming language =
operating system = Any (Web-based application)
language = Multilingual (9)
genre = Online spreadsheet
license =
website = http://www.editgrid.com/

EditGrid is a Web 2.0 spreadsheet service. It offers both a free-of-charge service to personal users and a subscription service to organisations and is available on a number of partner sites and channels [cite web
url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=374
title=EditGrid’s distinctive Office 2.0 business model
author=Phil Wainewright
publisher=ZDNet
date=2007-09-06
accessdate=2007-09-12] .

EditGrid is one of the players in the emerging market of online spreadsheets [cite web
url=http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/editgrid_online_spreadsheet.php
title=EditGrid - New Online Spreadsheet, Better Than Google Spreadsheets
author=Richard MacManus and Gang Lu
publisher=ReadWriteWeb
date=2007-02-15
accessdate=2007-02-16] along with Google Spreadsheets and Zoho Sheet.

History

EditGrid is developed, provided and maintained by Team and Concepts, a Hong Kong-based company. The first public beta release of EditGrid was launched on 7 April 2006. It registered its 10,000th personal user in November 2006 [cite web
url=http://www.folknology.com/Exclusive_EditGrid_conversation_with_founder_-_David_Lee.html
title=Exclusive EditGrid conversation with founder - David Lee
publisher=Folknology
month=November | year=2006
accessdate=2007-01-15] . In January 2007 EditGrid started to offer organisation accounts for free trial and also became available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange platform [cite web
url=http://blog.editgrid.com/archives/178
title=Check out EditGrid at Salesforce AppExchange!
author=David Lee
publisher=EditGrid Developers Blog
date=2007-01-12
accessdate=2007-01-13] . On 14 February 2007 [cite web
url=http://blog.editgrid.com/archives/200
title=EditGrid Out of Beta, Launched Subscription Service
author=David Lee
publisher=EditGrid Blog
date=2007-02-14
accessdate=2007-02-15] [cite web
url=http://www.accmanpro.com/2007/02/14/editgrid-out-of-beta/
title=EditGrid out of beta
author=Dennis Howlett
publisher=AccMan
date=2007-02-14
accessdate=2007-02-15] , EditGrid officially declared out-of-beta and launched its subscription service.

In June 2007, EditGrid announced a $1.25 million series A investment from the WI Harper Group [cite web
url=http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/10/team-and-concepts-raises-125million-series-a/
title=Team and Concepts Raises $1.25million Series A
author=Duncan Riley
publisher=TechCrunch
date=2007-06-10
accessdate=2007-06-14] .

Features

Touted as the most advanced and well-polished Ajax-enabled spreadsheet [ cite web
url=http://itredux.com/blog/2007/03/26/spreadsheet-roundup/
title=Spreadsheet Roundup
author=Ismael Ghalimi
publisher=ITRedux
date=2007-03-26
accessdate=2007-04-18] [cite web
url=http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-02-22-n26.html
title=EditGrid, Google Spreadsheets Competitor
author=Philipp Lenssen
publisher=Google Blogoscoped
date=2007-02-22
accessdate=2007-02-23] , EditGrid includes features for shared access and online collaboration [he icon cite web
url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/captain/pages/ShArtCaptain.jhtml?contrassID=11&subContrassID=0&itemNo=725095
title=עומדים על נייר
author=ליאור הנר
publisher=Haaretz
date=2006-06-09
accessdate=2006-08-12] on top of conventional spreadsheet functionalities. Its Real-Time Update (RTU) feature allows multiple users to see changes on a spreadsheet immediately, and is considered a winning feature among similar products [cite web
url=http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070301/technology-tools_pagen_2.html
title=Winning the Numbers Game – Best for... Collaborating
author=Michael Fitzgerald
publisher=Inc. magazine
month=March | year=2007
accessdate=2007-04-18] . Its Remote Data feature can retrieve live data on the web [cite web
url=http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/web/2006/0717web1.html
title=EditGrid, an excellent Web 2.0 spreadsheet
author=Mark Gibbs
publisher=Network World
date=2006-07-17
accessdate=2006-08-11] , while its My Data Format (MDF) feature allows users to customise the output format using XSLT, such as live KML for Google Earth [cite web
url=http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/08/editgrid_xml_xs.html
title=EditGrid => XML + XSLT => KML
author=Stefan Geens
publisher=Ogle Earth
date=2006-08-23
accessdate=2006-10-31] . Other features include multiple access control levels, revision history [pt icon cite web
url=http://pcworld.uol.com.br/reportagens/2006/06/29/idgnoticia.2006-06-29.1758689673/IDGNoticia_view
title=Alternativas ao Excel
author=David de Oliveira Lemes
publisher=PC World
date=2006-06-29
accessdate=2006-08-12] , charting, live chat, permalinks and more than 500 spreadsheet functions.

Apart from access from its main site, spreadsheets hosted on EditGrid can be accessed on third-party websites by means of its post-to-blog feature.

In September 2007, the EditGrid iPhone Edition was launched at the Office 2.0 Conference [cite web
url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=145
title=Spreadsheet for your iPhone
author=Dennis Howlett
publisher=ZDNet
date=2007-09-05
accessdate=2007-09-12] .

Javascript Macro support

In September 2008, EditGrid launched its JavaScript Macro support, enabling user programmed macros to manipulate EditGrid spreadsheets using Javascript (version 1.5)
https://wiki.editgrid.com/display/dev/Macro+Guide. Within a month of its launch, amongst the first user written custom-built applications is a javascript macro source code animator & debugger currently known as JAGUAR ("JAvascript Generator & User Animated Realtime debugger") that permits logical pause (or "breakpoint") by macro statement number and single cycle execution within the javascript source code, to facilitate macro development in this environment

Because of the nature of the EditGrid macro interface, Firebug (for EditGrid users utilizing the Mozilla Firefox browser), is not particularly helpful in the Editgrid macro environment because the original macro source code is dynamically re-formed. The user written debugger however supports asynchronous interface actions initiated by on-screen spreadsheet buttons or macro supported javascript events including timed functions, HTML "toolboxes" and "pickers", all at original source level. The user written source code is held and edited within an EditGrid spreadsheet, enabling full synchronization of cell references, sheet names and other variables (eg. columns & rows) between the javascript macro source and the related spreadsheet. The macro source is therefore under the control of the fully automatic EditGrid 'save' environment permitting earlier revisions to be re-called with full backup/recovery in the event of server or other errors.

Integration and interoperability

EditGrid is available as a module on Netvibes, Pageflakes and Google Personalized Homepage [cite web
url=http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9677267-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware
title=EditGrid: A nice competitor to Google Spreadsheets
author=Rafe Needleman
publisher=CNET Webware
date=2007-01-11
accessdate=2007-01-13] . EditGrid is also available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange platform [cite web
url=http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000002dkSHAAY
title=EditGrid Spreadsheets Application Overview
publisher=Salesforce.com AppExchange
date=2007-01-10
accessdate=2007-01-22] [cite web
url=http://blogs.salesforce.com/appexchange/2007/01/app_of_the_week_1.html
title=App of the Week
publisher=The AppExchange Blog, Salesforce.com
date=2007-01-19
accessdate=2007-01-22] .

EditGrid also forms part of the offering of Central Desktop [cite web
url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Orchant/?p=357
title=Central Desktop adds spreadsheets to their mix
author=Marc Orchant
publisher=ZDNet
date=2007-02-20
accessdate=2007-02-21] , ShareOffice [cite web
url=http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/shareoffice_launches.php
title=ShareOffice Launches - Open Standards Based Web Office Suite
author=Richard MacManus
publisher=ReadWriteWeb
date=2007-05-08
accessdate=2007-06-14] and ThinkFree Office [cite web
url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Orchant/?p=465
title=ThinkFree and EditGrid announce online spreadsheet partnership
author=Marc Orchant
publisher=ZDNet
date=2007-06-04
accessdate=2007-06-14] .

In addition, developers can make use of the EditGrid API to build custom applications. There are a number of EditGrid add-ons that mash up other services. One of these, Grid2Map, turns longitude-latitude pairs into placemarks on Google Maps [cite web
url=http://www.hindu.com/biz/2006/10/30/stories/2006103000651500.htm
title=Location-enabled webfeed holds promise
author=J. Murali
publisher=The Hindu
date=2006-10-30
accessdate=2006-10-31] .

Applications

* [http://spreadsheetsgis.googlepages.com/ Spreadsheets KML solutions]
* [http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2006/08/online-spreadsheets-and-kml-the-possibilities-are-endless/ Turn online collaborative spreadsheets into live KML]
* [http://seattlefrancophone.info/index.php#charts Historical financial quotes charts with EditGrid]
* [http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Timeline/EditGrid_XSLT Using EditGrid's XSLT feature to export Timeline XML]

Multilingualism

In addition to the default English version, EditGrid is available in eight languages: German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, largely thanks to a community localisation project [cite web
url=http://www.editgrid.com/article/elp
title=EditGrid Localisation Project
accessdate=2006-11-11] .

Subscription service

EditGrid is available to organisation users on a software-as-a-service basis. Organisation users enjoy SSL-encrypted traffic, user account administration and management reports on top of the features available to personal users [cite web
url=http://undertheradarblog.com/2007/01/19/its-a-grid-get-it/
title=It's a grid - get it?
publisher=Under the Radar Blog
date=2007-01-19
accessdate=2007-01-22] .

Software architecture

EditGrid is developed on an open-source software architecture [cite web
url=http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/web2/0,39063521,61974120,00.htm
title=Web 2.0 Online Spreadsheets
author=Andy Chun
publisher=ZDNet Asia
date=2006-12-11
accessdate=2006-12-12] . It runs on Catalyst as the web application framework and uses Gnumeric as its back-end support. It adopts Ajax technology at the front-end.

References

External links

* [http://www.editgrid.com/ EditGrid Online Spreadsheets]
* [http://blog.editgrid.com/ EditGrid Developers Blog]
* [http://forum.editgrid.com/ EditGrid Forum]