[Design] Recurrence, table view, and triage status

[Mimi Yin]

This would be a good first step towards what we would eventually like  
for recurring events in the Dashboard: http://svn.osafoundation.org/ 
docs/trunk/docs/specs/rel0_7/Dashboard-0.7.html

On Sep 8, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>> The first thing that comes to mind for me is that perhaps instead of
>> always displaying the master, we want to display the next relevant
>> occurrence in the table view, taking the current time and triage  
>> status
>> into account.  I expect doing that would be quite a bit of work,  
>> but at
>> least it wouldn't involve varying numbers of rows per item like
>> displaying several occurrences alongside a master would.
>>
>>
> +1
> Since the table view is now the Dashboard, we should see in  
> priority here things that are upcoming next or close to (Now or  
> Later).
>
> For the "changing the triage status to unique occurrences" issue,  
> why can' we have a "All, All future, This one only" dialog? IOW,  
> isn't the triage status an attribute of the item and should trigger  
> the same behavior as other attribute change? (obviously a naive  
> question but I thought I ask to clarify the problem)

Yes this is the desired behavior.

>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
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