Ok, I think I understand now. Yes, everything is just black text.
Bryan would be a better person to comment on the difficulty of adding
color or a strike through in the current notes field of the detail
view or any other detail view field for that matter. I don't know all
the specifics about what we handle in the attribute editors.
That being said, I still think tracking and storing changes is the
larger issue. We have already decided not to handle threading/
versioning for Preview so I don't know how we would handle the
changes/additions etc..maybe this is a different problem. Maybe you
are really asking the question: Is there an easy way to handle
versions for Preview? I shouldn't speculate and we should hear from
the developers.
From the stamping storyboards, you will know that someone edited/
updated the item and when but you won't have any details about what
changed unless they add a note ie: I changed the time OR you remember
what was there before. We have talked about having more detailed log
for changes to shared items - perhaps even listing what attributes of
an item changed. How much of that is even doable is up in the air.
On Sep 13, 2006, at 5:32 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
Yes #1, though given the time frame for preview–is there a way to
still give some visual cue when someone has made edits on your
item. I've presented some ideas–I didn't know if the color coding
idea might be too difficult for the short term. I'm also looking to
see if anyone else has any other ideas besides the ones I presented.
I think if Chandler stores the archived items, then displaying what
was edited (erased) may not be as important for now, but more
importantly is what was added/changed, as in an email thread.
Currently as I understand it, everything is just black text and one
doesn't know if there were changes made to the original document
and where. Does that make sense?
-Priscilla
1) Are you looking for comments on developer difficulty for each
of the proposed visual solutions for showing information that has
been edited ie: red text vs strike through etc.
I assume we are talking about #1 and you are asking about what is
possible from a dev perspective. I suspect that the harder piece
would be actually storing what used to be there rather than
whether or not we display this in red. Now if I edit an item,
whatever was in the time field before I changed it from 1:00pm to
2:00pm is basically gone. I might be wrong at that. We weren't
going to handle versions for Preview but might for 1.0.
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