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

[Sheila Mooney]

On Sep 15, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

>
>
> Priscilla Chung wrote:
>> On Sep 13, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Sheila Mooney wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> Yes agreed. I understand track changes/versioning is the long term  
>> goal. For preview, I'm just asking what will be possible with just  
>> plain text. And specifically only in the notes field in the detail  
>> view. Not a date/time change and how to give the user a visual cue  
>> on those changes. So in regards to the notes field we may be just  
>> talking about the two examples I presented earlier:
>> Example 1:
>> Dinner @ 7PM at Café Floré
>> > Let's do dinner at 8PM in case I am late. >> 8PM sounds great!
>>
>> Example 3:
>> On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:15PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
>> Dinner @7PM at Café Floré
>>
>> On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:32PM, Dan Steinicke wrote:
>> no let's do 8PM
>>
>> On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:40PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
>> That sounds great!
>>
>> Does that make sense?
> That makes sense and that would avoid rewriting the Notes field in  
> the DV *but* this still requires a mechanism for track changes/ 
> versioning and the building of a synthetic for display version of  
> the field. Not a piece of cake and something I really don't see as  
> a "must have" for preview.

I think everybody agrees on this one. More detailed tracking changes  
and versioning will be post Preview.

>
> Unless you had in mind the mechanism used by email when answering a  
> thread? i.e., when you edit the notes fields, the whole thing  
> becomes prefixed with ">" on each line and/or with a "Time / Author  
> wrote" line? That would be easy (I think) though that would  
> recreate a lot of the collaboration through email issues...

Yes, I think this is what Priscilla is referring to. I think she  
means that when you edit and update anything in the notes field, it  
looks the same as when you reply. We would add the ">" and tag the  
change with the time/author etc.

+ In Alpha5 we are planning to have a field in the detail view below  
the to/from fields of the format....
	+ Edited by <EMAIL>  on <DATE>
	+ Updated by <EMAIL> on <DATE>
+ We will also have email reply working for Alpha4 were we are going  
to have the basic ">".

I suggest we wait and see what all that looks like first before we  
make any decisions on this. As Philippe pointed out, there are a  
bunch of weird issues we would have to work through and I would like  
to keep things as simple as possible. Also, I am looking to remote  
stuff for Preview now rather than adding in new features and I don't  
think this is a must have.

>
> Note that a workaround would be for users to simply not erase stuff  
> but simply add to the field. If having the history of changes is  
> that important for some users, some a simple enough hint to suggest  
> and use.
>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
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