Mimi,
You wrote:
On the calendar canvas, instead
of setting all new events to NOW, we should set triage status on event
items in terms of where they live on the calendar canvas relative to
your current place in time.
+ For example, events created in
the future (ie. after Today) are set to LATER.
+ Events created for Today are
set to NOW.
+ Events created in the Past are
set to DONE.
+ If it is 3PM and you create an
event for 10AM Today, the event should be set to DONE.
+ If it is 3PM and you create an
all-day or anytime event for Today, the event should be triaged as NOW.
Those five are straightforward
enough - I think it breaks down to this, done by the calendar canvas as
part of creating the event:
if start > now and start.date()
!= now.date():
triageStatus
= LATER
elif end < now:
triageStatus
= DONE
else:
triageStatus
= NOW
However...
+ If you create a multi-day event
that starts before Today, but ends either Today or after Today, the
event should be set to NOW.
+ If you create a multi-day event
that starts Today but ends after Today, the event should be set to NOW.
I think the only situation where
we can pre-set triage status is on *initial creation* of an event where
the time is already known: that is, when the user double-clicks on a
canvas to create an allday event (if in the allday/anytime area) or a
one-hour event (if in the timed area). Everything the user does after
this (like turning the original event into a multi-day event by
drag-extending it on the calendar canvas, or editing fields in the
detail view) are edits to an existing event.
We could update triageStatus with
the above logic (or something like it) whenever the user edits one of
(start, end, timezone, allDay, anyTime), but I think that'd be weird...
alternatively, if/when we change events to allow them to not have a
start date/time until the user fills it in (which isn't quite as simple
as it sounds), then we could set triage status as part of the user's
first entry of a valid start date/time (assuming we're still assuming
that timed events are an hour long by default).
...Bryan
