It's an interesting qusestion. What is more confusing:
1. Not displaying alarm information. (Users might wonder what happened
to they alarm they set on an event.)
2. Displaying alarm information, but not actually triggering an alarm.
(If alarm info is displayed, users might assume that alarms work in
Scooby, and miss some important meeting because they didn't get an alarm.)
My vote would be not to display alarm info until we actually implement
alarms in Scooby. The repercussions are less annoying -- users would
know not to depend on an alarm from Scooby, and when they seen their
event again in Chandler (or whatever calendar app), they'd see the alarm
is still there.
Matthew
Priscilla Chung wrote:
Here are some issues about the alarm feature in Scooby. Please keep in
mind we have decided not to implement a fully functioning alarm feature
for the target user release "dogfood-able" release. Examples of
fully functional alarms:
+ Alarm notification in a pop up box (display/edit)
+ Alarm notification sent to mobile devices (display/edit)
+ Alarm notification sent to an e-mail address (display/edit)
Currently, the target users for Scooby are:
+ Chandler user that wants to use Scooby just as a drive by view of
their calendar
+ Non Chandler user that wants to look at my calendar (read only)
*Feature: Display of Alarms*
*Current Behavior*:
+ Currently there is no UI that exists to display or set alarms.
*Use Cases*:
+ A Chandler User subscribes his Chandler calendar into Scooby. There
are alarms set on his events in Chandler. When viewing his Chandler
calendar in Scooby, the user would like to see all the information
stored in an event that is the same created in Chandler. Information
such as the status and if there is an alarm set on the event.
*Proposal:*
+ 0.2 is not a usable release. It does not seem to be necessary to
implement the alarm feature for 0.2, including just displaying the alarm
in the event details/lozenge. Development for a fully functioning alarm
feature may commence for future release. Even if it will not be in the
target user's/dog food-able release.
*UI Dependencies:*
+ None.
*What we need to know: *
+ Is displaying alarms in Scooby created in Chandler useful or confusing
to users?
+ Would not having alarms displayed be confusing to a Chandler Users who
have alarm information stored in their events in Chandler?
-Priscilla
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