Currently, when user's delete their repository and run Chandler
again, they need to restore all their shares individually. Published
shares are restored using the restore menu item. You have to select
each sharing account individually and restore shares one at a time.
For subscribed shares, you will have to re-subscribe to URLs one at a
time.
The design team proposed that there be some one-step way to re-create
your sharing world a bit easier. The proposal is to replace the
current restore dialog with a hierarchical view of all your sharing
accounts and what shares you have published under that account. This
would be followed by a list of the shares we have subscribed to.
Mockup below...
Somehow each share you had published or subscribed to previously
would be automatically selected and you simply have to click ok to
set this up again. After discussions with Morgen, there are several
issues or questions/issues around this.
+ With the above proposal, you first need to go to the accounts
dialog and add the details for your sharing accounts as a separate
step. As Morgen suggested, does it make sense to have some kind of
way to back up personal settings and accounts?
+ Should we be somehow limiting this to only the default sharing
account rather than trying to build the hierarchy for all shares on
each server? How many people will be using different servers?
+ We would have to go to each server, return the list of what's under
your account then auto-select whatever you had in your chandler view
last time. Not sure what the technical implications are here but it
seems like overkill.
+ Are there other options we can consider - I believe Morgen
suggested storing some information locally.
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