[chandler-users] dashboard calendar

[Rick Rawson]

Grant,

Previous to v0.7.6, clicking the Calendar toolbar button with the 
Dashboard selected would always give me a triage table. In v0.7.6, 
whether I see a calendar or a triage table depends on what is selected 
under Tools >> Select View... 

Upon my first use of the toolbar button after installing v0.7.6, I saw a 
calendar, suggesting that Tools >> Select View... was set by default to 
"calendar view". Considering that I didn't even know that the Tools menu 
had a "Select View..." option, it seems unlikely that I would have 
inadvertently changed the view option.

It seems to me that Tools >> Select View... is doing just what it 
should. Anyway, to provide a little data, I set Tools >> Select View... 
to "Triage Table View". I exported my data to a chex file, then...

1. restarted Chandler with a fresh repository. Clicking the Calendar 
toolbar button with the Dashboard selected gave me a triage table.

2. reloaded my chex file. Clicking the Calendar toolbar button with the 
Dashboard selected gave me a triage table.

3. set Tools >> Select View... to "Calendar View," saved my data to a 
chex file, restarted Chandler with a fresh repository. Clicking the 
Calendar toolbar button with the Dashboard selected gave me a triage 
table (contrary to what I would have predicted, since I had selected 
Calendar view prior to exporting my data and quitting Chandler).

4. reloaded my chex file. Clicking the Calendar toolbar button with the 
Dashboard selected gave me a triage table.

Therefore, I am at a loss to explain why I saw a calendar with the 
Dashboard selected, without ever having messed with Tools >> Select 
View...  But, here's where things get more interesting...

5. I have three four calendars that overlay each other. All four 
calendars display either a triage table or a calendar depending on how I 
set Tools >> Select View. All four show either a calendar or they show a 
triage table. They are not independent.

I have four other calendars that do NOT overlay any other calendars and 
what I see with the Calendar toolbar button selected depends on the 
Tools >> Select View setting for each collection, independently.

The Dashboard view also seems to be independent of any other collection.

Hope my descriptions made sense. Frankly, I like what Chandler is doing. :)


Rick

Grant Baillie said the following on 5/21/2008 12:54 PM:
> Hi, Rick
>
> That's weird ... For me, clicking the Calendar toolbar button with the  
> Dashboard selected gives me a triage table. This has been true under  
> various circumstances, e.g. after reloading data, after creating new  
> repository, relaunching without reloading, etc.
>
> So, I'm having trouble figuring out how you could be getting into that  
> state ... if you have any ideas on how to reproduce, let me know.  
> Also, is anyone else seeing this?
>
> --Grant
>
> On 20 May, 2008, at 13:17, Rick Rawson wrote:
>
>   
>> Grant,
>>
>> To see the Dashboard calendar, I simply selected the Calendar  
>> toolbar button and, voila, a calendar showed up where I had  
>> previously only seen a triage table. I didn't know there was a  
>> "Select View..." option on the Tools menu...so I played around with  
>> it. Interesting...
>>
>> So, reading between the lines of your email, there has been a  
>> Dashboard calendar since 0.7.2 but I did not see it until today (one  
>> day after installing 0.7.6) because "Tools >> Select View...Triage  
>> View" was always selected. When I installed 0.7.6 yesterday, I did  
>> not intentionally select "Calendar View" on the Tools menu, so it  
>> must have been selected by default. Then, when I chose the Calendar  
>> toolbar button, I saw a calendar rather than a table for the first  
>> time. But without display of recurring events. :)
>>