Hi Carl,
Not to keep re-routing you just for the fun of it! but I think you'll
grab more developer attention if we have this discussion over on the
Chandler Development List. If you haven't subscribed already, you can
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We've talked about simply allowing you to define queries using in the
Toolbar Text Field as a part of Search. So instead of searching for a
text string, you might able to search on a particular attribute:
Title=Call:
It'd be harder to do things like: Anything in January of 2008 or All
LATER items without calendar and alarm dates. You'd start having to
invent your own query syntax ;)
And then you could simply save this query as a dynamically generated
collection. (Note, under the hood, all Chandler collections are "rule-
based" *and* will allow inclusions and exclusions, aka items that
don't match the rule.)
What we don't have today is a way for users to define rules.
We've also talked about using the detail view itself as a way to
define rules. (Gmail does this nicely with its filter-builder.) as
well as GUI rule builders that would allow you to define complex
rules. But I think a simple way to define rules through the Search
bar would be a great start.
I'm going to post a response on the users list asking people for some
specific examples of queries they'd like to define.
Best,
Mimi
On Mar 19, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Carl Lemp wrote:
What I picture as a first step is a Properties item on the right-
click menu for the collections in the side-bar. On a properties
dialog, I could add names/phrases to match (synonyms) for that
collection and enable auto-assignment for the collection name and/
or the synonyms. Something like the syntax and capabilities of
Google's advanced search page would be convenient and easily
understood by everybody; only using Triage status and item type
instead of Language and File Type. Any items that matched would be
assigned to the collection. In addition to ensuring that an item
showed up everywhere it was relevant, this would allow me to treat
collections as views into the database of items. To work well as a
view, the rules would have to be applied to every item in the
database so that I could define a new collection for an existing
database and Chandler would search the entire database to assign
all matching items to the new collection.
Could all that be done with a plug-in? If so, could you point me
toward the tutorial on creating plug-ins.
Regards,
Carl
----- Original Message ----
From: Grant Baillie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Carl Lemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:08:44 PM
Subject: Re: [chandler-users] Re: Automatic Assignments
On 18 Mar, 2008, at 17:24, Carl Lemp wrote:
> Mimi, in your response to me and Alan, you mentioned that OSAF
> support volunteers working on features you don't have time to get
> to. That sounds interesting! Do you have any guess as to how many
> person days/weeks/months it might take for a novice Python
> programmer to get up to speed on Chandler internals and then
> implement a simple auto-assignment of items based on collection name
> and synonyms for collection names?
Hi, Carl
There is a bit of a learning curve (for novice programmers,
especially) to getting to the point where you can be writing code for
a Chandler plugin. If you're interested in trying, I'll happily point
you at the relevant docs (e.g. there's a tutorial that does discuss
setting up a plugin).
So far as person-week estimates go, I guess it depends on which items
you want to make auto-assignments on (e.g. the quick entry field?
incoming mail? any newly created item?). Can you elaborate on what you
had in mind, especially w.r.t. where you would expect to find
collection names, and how the synonyms would be set up?
--Grant
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