[Chandler-dev] Re: [Design] Questions about name that appears in detail view bi-line

[Morgen Sagen]

On Mar 2, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Would it be easier to add the email address field into the Sharing  
> account form?

That's certainly an option, although it still doesn't deal with the  
situation where the Chandler user has no accounts at all.

> We require one when signing up for  Chandler Hub account on osaf.us.

Actually, I was wondering if Cosmo actually uses that email address  
for anything.

> Morgen, what happens if the user has no account information at all?

What do you want to happen?  :-)  I guess under the hood we would  
just not have a value for the item's lastModifiedBy attribute (or  
have an None/empty value), and this state might be reprsented as  
"anonymous" in the byline. (?)


Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of just  
having some string that identifies the user.  We could prompt them  
for their name the first time they launch Chandler, and they could  
type in whatever they want: just a first name, first+last, an email  
address, nickname, whatever.  That string would be used for the  
byline whenever the user modified an item, and other people would see  
that string if they received an item from the user (either via email  
or Cosmo).

Under the hood we'd perhaps create a Contact item to store that user  
identifier.  When an item arrives via email or Cosmo we would create  
a new Contact to store the other user's identifier.

~morgen