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On Feb 7, 2007, at 4:12 PM, D John Anderson wrote:
I think something got lost in the thread. What I'm concerned about
is that the View menu items:
1. Introduce new views that are subtly different from the views
you get by switching App areas (ie. Table versus Dashboard); and
Actually, unless I'm missing something, the views you get to are
exactly the same as the views you get by switching App areas -- at
least that's the way the code works. We use the same view code for
both situations, which is why it was so easy to implement. Of
course you can have more than one view of the same type as you
navigate between different collections.
I don't understand. Currently in the View menu, there is Calendar,
Dashboard and Table as well as Week View and Day View.
I'm concerned about confusion around: What is the difference between
Dashboard and Table? What is the difference between Calendar View and
Week or Day View?
2. There's isn't an intuitive way to get back to the Search
results view, once you've switched away from it using the View
selector menu items.
By changing the view I don't think of it as "switching away" from
the results, but instead just viewing the same results in a
different view. If the results are originally displayed in a Table
view and you change the view of the results to Calendar view, you
can get back to where you were by choosing Table view from the menu.
I don't think search results is a table view right now. If I select
Table view in the View menu, the Rank column goes away and I can't
get it back. Although the #s in the sidebar seem to stay, which they
weren't doing last time.
One thing that Chandler does, which I think users have trouble
with, is change both the view and the collection items you are
viewing at the same time as you navigate through the app area and
collections in the sidebar. The view selector doesn't work this
way. It never affects the collection of items you are viewing, only
the view that they are presented in. It's useful when Chandler's
"guess" about what view you want isn't what you actually want.
If we can return search results in the Dashboard view and have Day
view, Week view and (Triage) Table view as the 3 options, then I
think we're good to go for Preview.
There is subtle a problem with implementing your proposed design as
the code exists today. We can't easily allow the Day view and Week
view to be separate views, since currently we don't change the view
when you switch between Day and Week in the calendar. We might be
able to add a bunch of special case code, but I'm not sure the
complication is worth it -- and then there's our short schedule.
I don't understand. How are we able to switch between Day and Week
view today with the menu items?
Even if we rewrote the calendar to be two different views, which
isn't trivial, it's awkward for us to switch the views when
choosing between Day and Week view as we do today. If this all
seems confusing a conversation in front of a whiteboard might help.
Yes, let's get together tomorrow morning? I can show you the weird
behavior with the search results returns as well.
John
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