On Sep 15, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
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.
I think everybody agrees on this one. More detailed tracking changes
and versioning will be post 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...
Yes, I think this is what Priscilla is referring to. I think she
means that when you edit and update anything in the notes field, it
looks the same as when you reply. We would add the ">" and tag the
change with the time/author etc.
+ In Alpha5 we are planning to have a field in the detail view below
the to/from fields of the format....
+ Edited by <EMAIL> on <DATE>
+ Updated by <EMAIL> on <DATE>
+ We will also have email reply working for Alpha4 were we are going
to have the basic ">".
I suggest we wait and see what all that looks like first before we
make any decisions on this. As Philippe pointed out, there are a
bunch of weird issues we would have to work through and I would like
to keep things as simple as possible. Also, I am looking to remote
stuff for Preview now rather than adding in new features and I don't
think this is a must have.
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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