(Thinking aloud email.)
Re-evaluating this proposal, I wonder if this proposal a little heavy-
handed (and more work than the proposal I initially brought to the
list to simply change the Addressing Stamp workflow so that preparing
an item as an email is a separate action from simply stamping it to
address it with a To: field.
- http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-October/
007749.html
- http://chandlerproject.org/Notes/EditUpdateWorkflowImprovements
1. It feels heavy-handed to have every note, event you enter have an
owner?
2. Sometimes you create an item, and you haven't figured out an owner
yet. Stamping to 'address' an item is part of iterating on that item
and process it over time.
My next action is to discuss this with Reid, who is implementing this
feature and get more into the details of what's simple and what's not
simple to do.
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11030
Mimi
On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
Problem: People often ask about how to 'assign' items to people,
either as a way of keeping track of 'waiting fors' or as a way of
tracking ownership: Who's responsible for this thing anyway?
This is a more complicated issue to address, but I think
1. Add an 'Owner' attribute to the base Note kind. That means, all
items: Notes, Messages, Tasks and Events have an 'Owner'. The
default 'Owner' is the user who creates the item. But the creator
can change who the 'Owner' is.
2. In the Triable Table View, the Who column 'defaults' to
displaying the 'Owner' attribute. However, when an item is 'Unread'
*and*:
+ Created
+ Edited
+ Sent/Received
+ Updated,
The Who column should 'temporarily' display cr/ed/fr/to/up, until
the user clicks on the item and views the details of the item.
This would be an extension of bug#, which we just implemented.
Nice to haves
1. Integrate 'Owner' with the Addressing fields so there aren't so
many people fields.
+ If the Owner = me, then Owner = From: field
+ If the Owner != me, then Owner = To: field
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