Hi Bryan, see comment s in-line
On Jul 17, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Bryan Stearns wrote:
Mimi Yin wrote:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AlphaFourDetailView
Okay, I've done a pass at pulling together all of the features
that the detail view is going to expected to support in the Alpha
4 timeframe. (I also snuck in some nice to haves, just in-case ;o)
What am I missing?
I see that the Label field isn't in alpha4 anymore, but you don't
mention Appears In: you still want it as-is for now, right?
Yes Label field has been dropped out of Alpha 4.
What doesn't make sense?
- " Pop-up fields (to be able to view and edit fields when the text
exceeds 1 line)" (if that's what I'm seeing depicted in
Alpha4_DetailView_Edit.png) conflict with the way autocompletion
works -- I'm not sure how popping up an autocompletion list over
the popped-up editing field would look: is that your intent? (or is
autocompletion supposed to work some other way?)
Good point. Again, not for Alpha 4. I don't think it's an
insurmountable design issue, it will take a bit of visual
maneuvering. You could add the drop-down of auto-complete options to
the bottom of the pop-up. What I don't know is whether this counts as
a 'custom-widget' we would have to build from scratch.
- The special requests section (storing gobbledygook in addressing
and date/time fields, especially addressing!) both look hard to
implement in a way that's complete and satisfying -- where "hard"
means we'll need to reconsider and possibly reimplement a lot of
how we store, sort, index, import/export, and share/merge these
fields, and I'm still not sure it won't be more confusing to the
user than if we'd just done decent validation (with support from
autocompletion) at data-entry time. Is this really an alpha4
requirement?
Agreed. Not for Alpha 4.
What should I storyboard out in more detail?
Do we need a spec for this?
Have a good weekend!
Mimi :o)
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