[Design] Changing views in Chandler

[D John Anderson]

>> 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?

The "Week View" and "Table View" don't actually change the underlying  
view. They only change what is shown when you are in Calendar View.  
You'll notice that they are grayed out when you are not in Calendar  
view. If I'm not mistaken, they are no different from clicking on the  
Week or Day header in the calendar view. I think they are useful,  
though, because people won't know to click in the Week and Day header.

"Week View" and "Table View" are a bad choice of words if we also  
allow switching between Dashboard, Calendar and Table views.

Likewise "Use sections" doesn't change the underlying view, it only  
changes what is shown when you are in Dashboard view. It doesn't gray  
out when you aren't in Dashboard view like "Week View" and "Table  
View". It probably should if we keep the item. But it's probably not  
worth keeping since the disclosure triangle in Dashboard view is  
pretty obvious, unlike the clicking on the Week and Day header in  
Calendar 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.

Good point. I was wrong about this.

After looking into it, I remembered that search uses a table view,  
but a different one than the Table view you get from the view menu.  
As it turns out it's easy to have a different Dashboard or Table  
views, each with different columns.

So I think you're right -- we need a way to get the Table view used  
by search back if we allow the view to be changed when search results  
are shown. I'll give that some thought.

John