Priscilla Chung wrote:
On Sep 13, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Sheila Mooney wrote:
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.
Yes agreed. I understand track changes/versioning is the long term
goal. For preview, I'm just asking what will be possible with just
plain text. And specifically only in the notes field in the detail
view. Not a date/time change and how to give the user a visual cue on
those changes. So in regards to the notes field we may be just talking
about the two examples I presented earlier:
Example 1:
Dinner @ 7PM at Café Floré
> Let's do dinner at 8PM in case I am late.
>> 8PM sounds great!
Example 3:
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:15PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
Dinner @7PM at Café Floré
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:32PM, Dan Steinicke wrote:
no let's do 8PM
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:40PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
That sounds great!
Does that make sense?
That makes sense and that would avoid rewriting the Notes field in the
DV *but* this still requires a mechanism for track changes/versioning
and the building of a synthetic for display version of the field. Not a
piece of cake and something I really don't see as a "must have" for preview.
Unless you had in mind the mechanism used by email when answering a
thread? i.e., when you edit the notes fields, the whole thing becomes
prefixed with ">" on each line and/or with a "Time / Author wrote" line?
That would be easy (I think) though that would recreate a lot of the
collaboration through email issues...
Note that a workaround would be for users to simply not erase stuff but
simply add to the field. If having the history of changes is that
important for some users, some a simple enough hint to suggest and use.
Cheers,
- Philippe
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