[Design] Collection Confusion - otra vez

Jim Sowers jim at spincycle.org
Sat Mar 18 21:26:02 PST 2006


Phillipe had instructed me to Subscribe rather than Restore, which led
to the following, which he thought would be useful to post to the
group.

jim

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A little feedback:
Apropos of my earlier email, I am now using a collection called Sowers_ALL.
When I installed on my 2nd machine, I chose the Restore option for
that collection.

After I received your email, I "deleted" that collection from my Mac
(the 2nd machine), but did not delete the items.  Then I chose,
Subscribe.  Rather than giving me a choice of which of my collections
to subscribe to, it gave me a dialog box with the path:
https://cosmo-demo.osafoundation.org/home/spincycle

I tried this one, just to see what would happen, but it failed with
"Interger division by zero" because the collection is empty (I filed
this bug a while ago).

So, I knew enough to retry and make the path:
https://cosmo-demo.osafoundation.org/home/spincycle/Sowers_ALL

It looks like it will work--it's in the middle of uploading as I type
this.  Not sure if it will double up all my events.  Anyway, obviously
you can see some of the issues.

Normally, you might be subscribing to someone else's collection.
However, if you are subscribing to a collection you own (which
Chandler can detect based on you putting in the account information
which allows you to access Cosmo), it you should give you a list of
your collections just as it does for "Restoring".

Actually, when select Subscribe, the dialog should ask you if you are
subscribing to a collection you own, or someone else's.

Am I making sense?


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