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

[Sheila Mooney]

Ok, I think I understand now. Yes, everything is just black text.  
Bryan would be a better person to comment on the difficulty of adding  
color or a strike through in the current notes field of the detail  
view or any other detail view field for that matter. I don't know all  
the specifics about what we handle in the attribute editors.

That being said, I still think tracking and storing changes is the  
larger issue. We have already decided not to handle threading/ 
versioning for Preview so I don't know how we would handle the  
changes/additions etc..maybe this is a different problem. Maybe you  
are really asking the question: Is there an easy way to handle  
versions for Preview? I shouldn't speculate and we should hear from  
the developers.

 From the stamping storyboards, you will know that someone edited/ 
updated the item and when but you won't have any details about what  
changed unless they add a note ie: I changed the time OR you remember  
what was there before. We have talked about having more detailed log  
for changes to shared items - perhaps even listing what attributes of  
an item changed. How much of that is even doable is up in the air.

On Sep 13, 2006, at 5:32 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:

> 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.
>>
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