[chandler-users] starting off .. partitioning info?

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Andrew,

I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but I'm going to try  
answering it anyway ;)

- The Dashboard Collection automatically picks up all items you  
create. But that's everything in 1 collection.
- If you want to be able to see items "By Project" and "By Lab Room",  
you'll need to create a collection for each project and put items in  
both the Lab-Room collection they belong in *and* the Project(s) they  
pertain to.

At some point, we would like to make this easier by allow you to  
define rule-based collections (e.g. Add all items where  
"Location=Room A" into the "Room A" collection) so that you don't  
have to do this kind of double-filing by hand.

Depending on how complicated your scheduling gets, you could also try  
putting the Lab-Room in the beginning 'Title" field of event items so  
that when you schedule lab time, you have a visual cue for conflicts.  
Then you would primarily organize everything "By Project" and overlay  
all the project calendars when your scheduling resources to make sure  
that nothing is conflicting.

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Does that answer your question?

Mimi


On Apr 6, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Andrew Hill wrote:

> hi folks, just starting to use Cosmo and Chandler Desktop.
>
> i'm wondering; can location conflicts be managed, for different  
> collections?
> for instance, two collections have unrelated calendar items that  
> attempt to utilize the same location as the same time.
>
> i'm trying to figure out the best way of doing:
> 	- task management for several people's projects, with various  
> collaboration between them
> 	- resource management for a shared lab (scheduling rooms,  
> messaging / tasks about supplies, sharing docs, etc).
>
> so far it looks like the best way to start would be to set up a  
> collection for every room in my lab, and then schedule items within  
> a room, regardless of project.  but i'd like a way to group and see  
> calendar items and task items across collections, if possible.
>
> thanks,
> andrew
>
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