On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
Hi Mimi,
I agree, it's not a heavy cost to have to see the prompt. However,
popping up the time zone prompt *before* subscribing to the
collection
puts the user in the position of having to make a decision before
they
have the information they need to make it. How will the user know if
they should turn on time zone support or not if they don't know if
the
collection they're subscribing to has time zones or not?
The pop-up should be: The collection you just subscribed to containes
time zone information. To view events and alarms correctly, we
recommend
that you assign a time zone to your events and alarms as well.
It would take a little more work to distinguish between importing
an ics
file and subscribing to a collection in the dialog text. So text that
worked for importing and subscribing would be nice.
Howzabout
'Collection name' uses time zones. To view events and alarms
correctly, we recommend that you assign a time zone to your events
and alarms as well.
I'm not sure I understand the performance issue. If the events being
subscribed to are floating, shouldn't they stay floating? Turning on
time zones only assigns a time zone to the users existing events,
correct?
The performance issue isn't huge if you don't have thousands of
floating
or all-day events, it's just that changing timezones means re-indexing
existing floating events, so if we changed timezones before
subscribing
we wouldn't have to reindex. The extra indexing is significant when
subscribing to the office calendar.
Well it should be a 1-time thing...so maybe not such a big deal?
It's working now for the dialog to pop up as soon as a timezoned event
is encountered, so it's not extra work to make the behavior you
describe
happen.
We pop up the dialog before letting users publish. How do users
know if
they should use timezones when publishing? I guess in that case
they're
imagining sharing with specific people, and they can make a decision
based on where those sharees are.
Well mostly, the shar-ER knows how they've been organizing their
calendar. If they're like David Allen and intentionally scheduled
events so that each day is a different time zone and they just keep
all that metadata in their head, they will know that they don't want
to assign a time zone to all their events.
However, if you're just Joe Schmoe and all your items are basically
in 1 time zone, you just never needed to turn them on until now, you
should just turn on time zones like we're suggesting so that you
don't irritate your sharees :o)
OK, I'm fine with going either way.
Okay, let's keep it AFTER then?
Sincerely,
Jeffrey
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