[Dev] Re: redirect and Who, About and Date

[Mimi Yin]

Hi John, just wanted to clarify a couple of things:

+ How do we tell the summary table know which attribute to feed into  
the explicit Who attribute? From, To, CC, BCC, Creator, Author, etc.
+ Could a user change which attribute to feed into the explicit Who  
attribute? e.g. Show To: instead of From:

In the FUTURE, could we add logic to define different attributes to  
feed into the Who attribute depending on what view you're in? In the  
Dashboard view, feed the From: attribute into the Who: attribute. In  
the OSAF Office calendar, feed the To: attribute into the Who:  
attribute.

This is related to the notion of Spheres. In the Dashboard, you want  
to view items from the perspective of your "Personal Sphere." In the  
Office calendar collection, you want to view items from the  
perspective of the group or "Office Sphere".

Mimi

On Mar 8, 2006, at 3:48 PM, John Anderson wrote:

> I'm planning on getting rid of redirect attributes to handle the  
> Who, About and Date attributes in the Summary Table. Instead I plan  
> to add an explicit Who, About and Date attribute. By noticing when  
> attributes that affect the value of Who, About or Date change  
> (using onValueChanged), I'll update Who, About and Date as necessary.
>
> This is simple to implement and eliminates the current problem  
> where Who, About and Date sometimes doesn't display the correct  
> value. It also doesn't require a special "computed attribute" that  
> isn't stored in the repository, so you can always search for Who,  
> About and Date like any other attribute. Finally, it allows Andi to  
> get rid of redirect, which simplifies the repository design.
>
> John
>