[Design] Dashboard confusing, don't know how to get calendar view

[Mimi Yin]

Thank you Heikki for your feedback. I can certainly understand why  
the sidebar/app bar design as it exists right now is confusing. There  
are a couple of things to keep in mind however that might clear up  
some of the confusion:

1. The sidebar/appbar is not complete right now. The plan is to ship  
OOTB with 2 user-defined collections turned on. e.g. Home and Work.

2. As far as we could tell with the way most people used their  
calendars, there is no such thing as a definitive set of "mine  
calendars" that never changed. Instead, people either had a single  
calendar that they put everything into; OR they had a few calendars  
that they turned on and off depending on what they're doing. Very few  
people had more than 5 'personal' calendars. Most people had fewer  
than 2.

3. Dogfooders preferred to overlay their individual calendars as  
opposed to overlaying their Dashboard calendar with their non- 
personal calendars.
[  ] My calendar
[x] Home
[x] Work
[x] OSAF Office Calendar

As opposed to...
[x] My calendar
[  ] Home
[  ] Work
[x] OSAF Office Calendar

4. Users will not have to regularly overlay their calendars to see  
their 'complete' calendar. According to the design, overlays should  
be preserved in the Calendar App. They are preserved when you move to  
a different App area. They are preserved when you click on an OOTB  
collection in the Calendar App area. You should never find yourself  
constantly overlaying lots of collections in order to restore your  
'desired, default' calendar view.

We discussed some of these issues in June when I originally put forth  
a proposal for design changes to the sidebar: http:// 
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-June/004818.html

Proposal for Next actions:
+ Add in 2 user-defined collections, OOTB: Home and Work.
+ Launch the app with the Work collection selected.

Mimi

On Sep 6, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Bryan Stearns wrote:

> I also don't understand the new model. At least, I'd expect to see  
> all my events on a calendar if "Dashboard" and "Calendar" were  
> selected - is there a way to see a complete calendar without  
> manually selecting all my collections?
>
> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>> I am somewhat confused about the new dashboard and default view. I  
>> look
>> at the toolbar and see that calendar is selected, and I see (and can
>> create) more events, yet I don't see the calendar view. I look at  
>> View
>> menu, which has the Calendar entry selected. Looking through the  
>> other
>> menus I have no idea how to get a calendar view.
>>
>> The only reason why I actually know calendar view works and how to  
>> get
>> to it was by reading John's checkins comments where he mentioned that
>> you need to create a collection. And that still does not show the
>> dashboard items in the calendar view.
>>
>> And now that I have a collection of my own and the dashboard,  
>> clicking
>> between them switches between table view and calendar view even  
>> though
>> both show events.
>>
>> I am not sure what would be the best way to change this, but the  
>> current
>> situation feels like a wrong approach.
>>
>> I think I would expect a PIM to start with a calendar view.
>>
>> I also think that Dashboard acts so differently from all the other
>> collections in the sidebar that I don't think it should be in the
>> sidebar at all. I think it should be a new button on the toolbar.
>>
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