On 18 July 2012 01:35, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/07/12 13:20, Joe Dreimann wrote: >> >> >> I'm happy for them to overlap. It's unlikely that they will significantly >> anyway in a common setup considering the number of users it would have and >> assuming some division of the work. >> > > You make a good point but the assumption of a large set of users is an > interesting one.
I think that once it's over a handful of users this will already become likely. No need for a large number. > Still, even if there is often significant overlap, that does not prove it > to be inherently bad. It seems more like a judgement call where you have > consistency of that part of the view between users against any perceived > problem with replication. We can always wait for calls to make it a > configuration option or a user preference. > > The discussion aspect is a good point I hadn't considered yet. When your >> priorities and the overall priorities overlap significantly that also >> provides helpful feedback which may trigger helpful conversations. >> > > Like.. 'why have you got all the high priority tickets?' Yes, that is a > reasonable point. > > Talking of the possibility of seeing another user's dashboards, it is > clearly possible to extend this idea to multiple users or groups. > Presumably this could be of use to a team leader for instance. I do not > recall a discussion here about how to help a team leader might see the > details of the teams work. It might be better to provide a slightly > different layout (perhaps separating their own tickets and the team's) but > at the moment we do not have the ability to distinguish this kind of user. > A team dashboard might be helpful to more than just the team leader of > course. Perhaps this is something to break into a new thread. > I'd say that with some better reporting tools and an intuitive Custom Query interface we can already achieve most of this. I see both also as general requirements we have to deliver independently of this. Also ticket #138 contributes towards making such a 'shared' view if it allows users to embed custom query results. Cheers, Joe
