[Design] [Chandler][Stamping Question] Visual cue when making edits

Priscilla Chung priscilla at osafoundation.org
Wed Sep 13 17:32:51 PDT 2006


Yes #1, though given the time frame for preview–is there a way to still 
give some visual cue when someone has made edits on your item. I've 
presented some ideas–I didn't know if the color coding idea might be too 
difficult for the short term. I'm also looking to see if anyone else has 
any other ideas besides the ones I presented.

I think if Chandler stores the archived items, then displaying what was 
edited (erased) may not be as important for now, but more importantly is 
what was added/changed, as in an email thread. Currently as I understand 
it, everything is just black text and one doesn't know if there were 
changes made to the original document and where. Does that make sense?
-Priscilla
>
> 1) Are you looking for comments on developer difficulty for each of 
> the proposed visual solutions for showing information that has been 
> edited ie: red text vs strike through etc.
>
>
> I assume we are talking about #1 and you are asking about what is 
> possible from a dev perspective. I suspect that the harder piece would 
> be actually storing what used to be there rather than whether or not 
> we display this in red. Now if I edit an item, whatever was in the 
> time field before I changed it from 1:00pm to 2:00pm is basically 
> gone. I might be wrong at that. We weren't going to handle versions 
> for Preview but might for 1.0.
>



More information about the Design mailing list