[Design] Sharing an event the naive way

[Sheila Mooney]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Jared Rhine wrote:

> Sheila Mooney wrote:
>> It sounds to me like Jared is subscribing to a read only calendar  
>> here.
>
> Correct.
>
>> I seem to remember that we wanted to be able drag read-only events  
>> onto
>> other calendars but this was difficult for some reason.
>
> This was sort of the idea from my post, that it'd be nice if I  
> could "do the
> right thing" and at least make a copy.

I agree. I will look into it a bit further. You did find a valid bug  
with the popup so in the meantime we can make sure that gets fixed.

>
> Even better would be if that copy was linked to the original in  
> some way,
> such that if Ted (the colleague) deleted the item for a week and  
> synced, my
> copy would be updated.
>
> The collaboration workflows already support this, I imagine, if  
> it's driven
> by Ted and he sends the event (via email) and then I can respond  
> (via email).
>
> Is there no way for me, as the "downstream" collaborator, to see an  
> event in
> a read-only shared collection and track that item without double  
> clicking
> and entering in all the same info?
>
> The spec does seem clear that there's nothing I can do with an  
> event in a
> read-only collection.  I note you can select an event in that  
> collection,
> but what action can you take with that selected event?

None except for being able to see the rest of the info in the detail  
view - alarms, notes etc.
>
> (I of course understand if this is outside Beta scope; the intent  
> is only to
> explore this usage scenario and see how Chandler supports it.)
>
> -- Jared
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