[Design] Imported and/or recurring events in the new dashboard

[Mimi Yin]

Thanks Grant, see below...

On Aug 3, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Grant Baillie wrote:

> 1) I now have 82 events in my dashboard, all with a triage status  
> of "Now". Maybe this is a one-off state of affairs (i.e. first  
> importing a pile of events with no triage status from another  
> client), but maybe it would be better to have imported past events  
> show up as "Done", and future as "Later"? We do something a little  
> like this with recurring events with reminders (i.e. treat past  
> reminders as having expired by default).

Yes, Jeffrey and I had a discussion on the list about this exact  
functionality and it is in the 0.7 Dashboard Spec under Alpha 5  
Dashboard. :o) http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006- 
July/004926.html

>
> 2) Some of those events were recurring (weekly/biweekly) meetings.  
> Changing them to "Done" seemed to have changed all recurrences to  
> "Done" (maybe this is just a bug). But, anyway, that started me  
> wondering how recurrence will interact with triage status and  
> ticklers. Is the following a reasonable outline for how this might  
> work?
>
> - I create an event; it starts off as "Now", and stays that way  
> when I make it recur.
> - I change the status to "Later" (for all occurrences).
> - When the first occurrence rolls around (or one of its ticklers  
> fires), just that event changes to "Now". There's an entry in my  
> "Later" section for the remaining events. Probably its date shows  
> up as the start of the first remaining event.
> - At some point, I change the first occurrence to "Done".

That sounds right. We started this conversation back in 0.6 with Alec  
and Jeffrey (re: how do we display recurring events in the table?) It  
seems like we not only want at least 1 instance of each recurring  
event in each Triage section. We also want 'detached' instances to  
appear as their own thing (e.g. The 4th instance is at 10AM instead  
of 2PM). I will add this to the spec.

Mimi :o)