[Design] [Proposal] Tagging and User-defined attributes Workflows

[Mimi Yin]

Pulling out a proposal from the Detail View meeting notes for "lightweight tagging and user-defined attributes" for discussion. http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ZeroPointSevenDetailView20060201 Label field discussion Appears in field will now become a user-editable label field Label field will contain tags (ie: bryan, cosmo, school) and User-defined attributes that get created on the fly by the user (ie: School: P.S. 187) User-defined attributes are specific to the item (not to the Kind) Tags, User-defined attributes and OOTB attributes can be collections in the sidebar Most of the tough architecture issues around user-defined attributes will be addressed as part of the domain model project for 0.7 - owned by Ted Interaction affordances We need to iterate on what affordances we provide to help users understand the relationship between attributes in the detail view and collections in the sidebar. ie: Add an asterick at the end of attribute values that have been added to the sidebar as a collection Context menu support for: Add/Remove an attribute value to the sidebar as a collection Search on an attribute value Assign a different attribute to the attribute value (ie. Not Author: Bryan, but Co-author: Bryan) Edit name of attribute Autocompletion: we will do the simplest auto-completion possible, meaning: If user types an attribute value that is assigned to multiple attributes, we will NOT try to guess which attribute the user intends. We will not be able to auto-match attributes added to the label field with existing OOTB attributes (ie. user labels an item, From: Bryan, this label will not be resolved with the OOTB "From" attribute. What needs to happen in the sidebar Create a new collection in the sidebar Name the collection: Research dentists If you have already labeled stuff Research dentists, then the collection needs to pull together all those items All subsequent items added to the collection are automatically labeled with the generic tag: Research dentists OR Name the collection: Project: Research dentists If you have already labeled stuff Project: Research dentists, then the collection needs to pull together all those items All subsequent items added to the collection are automatically labeled with the user-defined attribute, Project: Research dentists OR

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