[Cosmo-dev] displaying modifications in the account browser
Randy Letness
randy at osafoundation.org
Tue May 8 14:15:18 PDT 2007
Brian Moseley wrote:
> i never noticed before, but the account browser doesn't handle
> modifications particularly well. see the attached screenshot for a
> visual of the collection info page. the item info page doesn't work at
> all right now and shows a nasty jsp stack trace.
>
> how should the account browser display modifications? should they be
> labeled as events or items? since modifications by definition inherit
> most of their attributes from the items they modify, most of the time
> there won't be a distinct name for the modification (for the
> collection info page) or any content or event properties (for the item
> info page) except the one(s) that modify the original item.
>
Ideally we display the modification info including inherited
attributes/overridden attributes and a pointer to the item it modifies.
It should be labeled as an Event. For 0.6.1 I think we don't even
display the modification item in the account browser list.
-Randy
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