Mimi / design folks,
One thing I can think of is doing something with the wording of the
options dialog for recurring items in the Web UI. (I'm working on
overlays, which requires a "must remove all items" option, so I'm
sitting here looking at it now.)
Currently, the text of the dialog is:
"This is a recurring event. Which occurrences do you wish to change?"
And there are three buttons:
All Items, All Future Items, and Only This Item
So we have three different terms we're using in kind of a mushy way to
refer both to the entire recurrence series, and the individual items in
the series. Sure, you can likely intuit more-or-less what it means, but
it's not ideal. I think we can do better.
A few thoughts:
1. Whatever term we use for the individual occurrences, it should be the
word on the buttons. We shouldn't ask them what they want to do with
certain 'occurrences,' and then say 'items' on the buttons.
Inconsistency is fine, when it serves a significant purpose.
"'Occurrence' is too long a word for a button" doesn't seem that
compelling as a reason to use two different words.
2. I think it might make sense to avoid the word 'event,' since you're
changing/removing more than the event-ness. Can items recur without an
event stamp? If that's possible, you could see this dialog in
association with recurring items in list view that are not even events.
I'd like to propose something like this:
"This is a recurring item. Which items in the series do you wish to change?"
All Items, All Future Items, and Only This Item
Thanks.
Matthew
p.s. Hope you have a good vacation, Mimi. :)
Mimi Yin wrote:
I am leaving for vacation this Saturday for 2 weeks. Are there any open
issues that need to be resolved before then? Bugs? Mock-ups? etc.
What I currently have on my plate includes:
1. Staff Mtg Presentation: Setting up KEI Creative to use Chandler to
collaborate on projects
2. Syncing up with Philippe for Desktop 1.0 Planning
3. Preparation for FLOSS Usability Sprint in Nov.
4. Work through some design issues for Multi-Week view (Reid/Jeffrey)
5. Sample data set for Desktop OOTB experience
6. Summarize design list for last couple of weeks
7. Calendar colors on Chandler Hub
Close out some threads / bugs on the Design List:
+ Improvements to the reload dialog has been hanging open for some time.
+ Reconciling various sharing URLs
What's missing?
Mimi
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