Please see my notes inline:

On Jun 27, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:

I'm not sure that having the Sharing account in and of itself in the Manage share dialog is inherently confusing. It's there as supplementary information. It doesn't replace the Collection name, which is still the primary way users identify shares. It's simply part of the profile of the share.


Right but why display supplementary (or as I would call it, secondary) information unless the user can do something with it like you can in the 'Accounts' area. Especially, as you said it, the primary way users identify shares is by the collection name. 

Perhaps 'confusing' isn't the correct term, but more like why show additional information that doesn't really help the user? It just ends up 'cluttering' up what you want the user to do, which is to manage his/her collection share. 

It's fine if you don't think it confuses the user. The supplementary information just doesn't seem like it's necessary to the user to identity the collection.

I agree that (via ticket) is confusing. Perhaps we can say:


FOR PUBLISHED SHARES

Sharing via: Cosmo Sharing account


FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS:

Sharing via: URL ticket


We should probably introduce the concept of a ticket to the user. So they understand that it is a security measure.

Do you really think people understand what 'tickets' are outside of this office or outside the development community? 

-Priscilla
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