[Design] Changing views in Chandler

[Mimi Yin]

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On Feb 7, 2007, at 4:12 PM, D John Anderson wrote:

>>
>> I think something got lost in the thread. What I'm concerned about  
>> is that the View menu items:
>>  1. Introduce new views that are subtly different from the views  
>> you get by switching App areas (ie. Table versus Dashboard); and
>
> Actually, unless I'm missing something, the views you get to are  
> exactly the same as the views you get by switching App areas -- at  
> least that's the way the code works. We use the same view code for  
> both situations, which is why it was so easy to implement. Of  
> course you can have more than one view of the same type as you  
> navigate between different collections.

I don't understand. Currently in the View menu, there is Calendar,  
Dashboard and Table as well as Week View and Day View.

I'm concerned about confusion around: What is the difference between  
Dashboard and Table? What is the difference between Calendar View and  
Week or Day View?

>
>> 2. There's isn't an intuitive way to get back to the Search  
>> results view, once you've switched away from it using the View  
>> selector menu items.
>
> By changing the view I don't think of it as "switching away" from  
> the results, but instead just viewing the same results in a  
> different view. If the results are originally displayed in a Table  
> view and you change the view of the results to Calendar view, you  
> can get back to where you were by choosing Table view from the menu.

I don't think search results is a table view right now. If I select  
Table view in the View menu, the Rank column goes away and I can't  
get it back. Although the #s in the sidebar seem to stay, which they  
weren't doing last time.

>
> One thing that Chandler does, which I think users have trouble  
> with, is change both the view and the collection items you are  
> viewing at the same time as you navigate through the app area and  
> collections in the sidebar.  The view selector doesn't work this  
> way. It never affects the collection of items you are viewing, only  
> the view that they are presented in. It's useful when Chandler's  
> "guess" about what view you want isn't what you actually want.
>
>>
>> If we can return search results in the Dashboard view and have Day  
>> view, Week view and (Triage) Table view as the 3 options, then I  
>> think we're good to go for Preview.
>
> There is subtle a problem with implementing your proposed design as  
> the code exists today. We can't easily allow the Day view and Week  
> view to be separate views, since currently we don't change the view  
> when you switch between Day and Week in the calendar. We might be  
> able to add a bunch of special case code, but I'm not sure the  
> complication is worth it -- and then there's our short schedule.

I don't understand. How are we able to switch between Day and Week  
view today with the menu items?

>
> Even if we rewrote the calendar to be two different views, which  
> isn't trivial, it's awkward for us to switch the views when  
> choosing between Day and Week view as we do today. If this all  
> seems confusing a conversation in front of a whiteboard might help.

Yes, let's get together tomorrow morning? I can show you the weird  
behavior with the search results returns as well.

>
> John
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