Okay, I think I understand what you're getting at.
Really what we need to do is straighten out our View Selector versus
Kind Filter story.
I believe the problem we're running into is that the Dashboard
collection that can't be viewed as a Calendar. (User-defined
collections can display in 'Triage List View" in the Calendar app
just fine I think.)
For now however, I'm proposing we skirt the view-selector issue by
organizing the View menu this way:
View>>
All
Starred
Calendar
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Clean up
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Month View
Week View
Day View
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Next Week
Previous Week
.
.
.
Month/Week/Day Views would be greyed out except when user is looking
at a user-defined collection in the Calendar App Area.
Mimi
On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
Hi Mimi,
My apologies, too many words. Yes, in the direction of your
clarification about the bug below, I was trying to suggest that
when the Dashboard collection is selected, that the active (not
greyed) menu choices should be:
View>>
- All
- Starred
- Calendar>>Triage Table
...that is, to parallel the toolbar...with the idea that selecting
the path View>>Calendar>>Triage Table would have the same effect as
pressing the Calendar toolbar button, as now implemented, and
ideally also actually "pressing" the Calendar toolbar button for
the user.
-Andre
Mimi Yin wrote:
Hi Andre,
I'm not sure I'm following your description.
I think there was a misunderstanding about that bug, which I've re-
opened. The menu structure should be:
View>>
- All
- Starred
- Calendar>>Month / Week / Day
------------------
Mimi
On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
Hi, I just tried this out, and was immediately surprised that
from the Dashboard/All view the sub menu items for View >
Calendar were greyed out. I was expecting to have ability to
choose a sub menu item to change the view to Dashboard/Calendar.
Many programs have both icon and menu paths to various views and
functions. I believe the current implementation is confusing and
will be a barrier to discovery.
I suggest adding and making active a Triage Table View menu
choice to the sub menu under View > Calendar for use in the
Dashboard collection. That is, the Triage Table View sub menu
choice would be active only when pressing View > Calendar from
the Dashboard/All view. I believe this would help to clarify for
new users the behavior difference, when pressing the Calendar
toolbar button, between being in the Dashboard collection and a
user collection. Certainly, I'm influenced by having used to date
the current Tools > Select View menu items, but I believe they
clarify rather than obscure Chandler's features. I am not
suggesting at this time that a Calendar/Triage Table View be made
available for personal collections due to the open issue of
master occurrences being displayed also and the confusion that
can cause. (Even though I believe this should be a 1.x feature. I
have a user story to support this.)
I didn't reopen this bug, but will do so if there is agreement.
-Andre
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