Hi Mimi, > For items that start out as emails, we could automatically change the > To: field to become 'Assigned to:' when users stamp those emails as Tasks.
Sounds good, is there a bug to track this overall concept of spiffing up task + mail? Or maybe we don't have a clear enough plan yet. > I think these 2 features would help users 'discover' addressing as a way > of assigning tasks. A way to show/hide the cc and bcc fields would help > too. They scream email to users and help to squash any inkling that the > addressing fields could be used for anything other than addressing > communications. The From: field also doesn't have an obvious analog in a task-centric world. Maybe we could relabel From: -> Assigned-by:? How about this: If a message also has the task stamp, we - rename To -> assigned-to, - rename From -> assigned-by, - hide assigned-by if it matches assigned-to - hide any other messaging fields that are empty - add a [More/Less] button to show all the hidden fields Also, now that we're pursuing task management, I've noticed various problems with the mail stamp in the dashboard: - In the Chandler Evangelism collection, everyone's tasks show up as being from me (filed bug 11027) - The draft icon for task-messages seems inappropriate and distracting; I'm never planning on sending emails about the task, it's just an assigned task. Sincerely, Jeffrey _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
