[Design] Re: Alpha 4 Detail View work - consolidated

[Bryan Stearns]

(ccing design)

Mimi,

See below...

...Bryan

Mimi Yin wrote:
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AlphaFourDetailView
>
> Okay, I've done a pass at pulling together all of the features that 
> the detail view is going to expected to support in the Alpha 4 
> timeframe. (I also snuck in some nice to haves, just in-case ;o)
>
> What am I missing?
I see that the Label field isn't in alpha4 anymore, but you don't 
mention Appears In: you still want it as-is for now, right?
> What doesn't make sense?
- " Pop-up fields (to be able to view and edit fields when the text 
exceeds 1 line)" (if that's what I'm seeing depicted in 
Alpha4_DetailView_Edit.png) conflict with the way autocompletion works 
-- I'm not sure how popping up an autocompletion list over the popped-up 
editing field would look: is that your intent? (or is autocompletion 
supposed to work some other way?)

- The special requests section (storing gobbledygook in addressing and 
date/time fields, especially addressing!) both look hard to implement in 
a way that's complete and satisfying -- where "hard" means we'll need to 
reconsider and possibly reimplement a lot of how we store, sort, index, 
import/export, and share/merge these fields, and I'm still not sure it 
won't be more confusing to the user than if we'd just done decent 
validation (with support from autocompletion) at data-entry time. Is 
this really an alpha4 requirement?
> What should I storyboard out in more detail?
>
> Do we need a spec for this?
>
> Have a good weekend!
>
> Mimi :o)