[Design] default attribute values for items created by cosmo

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for bringing these scenarios to light. I have a few question  
in-line...

On Feb 9, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> there are often times that cosmo creates items on its own rather than
> having them synced up from chandler:
>
> * an event is uploaded with caldav

To a shared collection in Chandler?

> * a file is uploaded with webdav

Well, I think if we can identify what kind of file it is e.g. an .ics  
file and it corresponds to a Chandler item Kind, we can manage to  
figure out how to integrate that into the PIM universe, as we've  
defined it today. Anything more than that will probably have to wait  
to post-Preview because we haven't implemented an end-user model for  
things like spreadsheets, documents, media in Chandler.

> * an event is created in the cosmo ui

Both this and the first scenario get to the heart of the open issues  
around Auto-triaging for Cosmo Dashboard. The thinking right now is  
that all of this would be taken care of by the Chandler client and  
that Cosmo would have a default like: All New items are triaged to  
NOW. Users can explicitly triage them...but if they don't, they will  
be triaged when synced with a Chandler client by Chandler.

>
> when this happens, there are several attributes that are not set:
> triage status, triage status changed, last modified by, created on.
>
> should any of these attributes be set by cosmo when creating items? if
> so, what rules do we use to set them? when is it important that we
> make this happen - 0.6.1 (uses new sharing protocol along with
> chandler a5), preview, post-preview?

I think we need all of them. Other than triage status, are there open  
issues around how to set last modified on and created on? and created/ 
edited by?

Obviously, sometimes the created by...will be anonymous. Although we  
discussed having an editable field to allow CC's to identify themselves.

Mimi

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