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Views Bulk Operations (VBO): All your content are belong to us

One of the useful Web patterns I've been noticing has to do with item lists and bulk actions. Given a list of items, add a checkbox in front of each item, and let the user select an action to be executed on the checked selection. Specifically, I've seen it in phpMyAdmin, Mantis, and Google Mail.

Sheetnode: Online spreadsheets just like regular nodes!

Originally published at OpenCraft.

Google Spreadsheets are cool, but their problem is that they are hosted at Google instead of in your intranet portal. That means that they don't integrate easily with your other Web documents, in terms of classification, indexing, permissions, etc. The API provided by Google does help there, it's true. But what about adding new features? Google Docs simply isn't open source, and therefore is not ideal.