[Design] [Please Review] Dashboard Spec Update - Recurring Events

[Grant Baillie]

On 26 Feb, 2007, at 18:32, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Okay, so are we saying that Triaging, Adding/Removing Custom  
> reminders will always apply to individual occurrences no matter  
> where you are, Dashboard or Calendar?

That sounds right to me.

> Invoking the Task stamp I think should pop-up the dialog asking  
> users if they want to apply/remove the stamp to the entire series,  
> the single occurrence or this and future occurrences, regardless of  
> where you are. Is this consistent with how you're thinking about  
> things? or would this require reworking?

There are some changes required here, so far as I can tell. In  
general stamping and unstamping of occurrences is pretty broken right  
now, but I'm hoping the changes I'm working on for bug 7446 will help  
out muchly.

> And Marking as Read/Unread/Needs reply always applies to the entire  
> series?

For some reason, the Read/Unread case seems more compelling to me  
than Needs Reply. But I'd be happy to try Needs Reply this way, and  
raise a hue and cry if it's not meeting my needs :).

--Grant

>
> Mimi
>
> On Feb 26, 2007, at 5:14 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>
>> Hi Mimi,
>>
>>> There is also the issue of triaging and marking recurring events as
>>> read/unread/needs reply, also pasted below. Jeffrey, are we really
>>> applying explicit triaging to the entire series? I couldn't  
>>> remember if
>>> we only agreed to do that with Read/Unread/Needs reply status or  
>>> if we
>>> are doing that with Triage as well.
>>
>> I think triage status should continue to apply to individual
>> occurrences.  There's fairly elaborate code to make triage status
>> per-occurrence based on start time, making triage changes apply in a
>> different way would be a lot of design back and forth and  
>> implementation
>> time.
>>
>>> *Also...the stuff in the Triaging/Marking as Read/Unread section,  
>>> should
>>> the same rules apply to Stamping to Add to/Remove from Task list and
>>> Adding/Removing Reminders? Both can be done from the Dashboard.*
>>
>> Currently we only allow stamping as a task to apply to individual
>> occurrences.  That was before the recurrence branch landed, I  
>> think it
>> would be reasonable to allow either now, but at least in the  
>> dashboard,
>> I'm happy with the task stamp always applying to individual  
>> occurrences.
>>
>> Reminders added through the dashboard are absolute reminders.   
>> Right now
>> you can't add a reminder to a recurring event through the dashboard,
>> that's bug 8214.  When you can, I'd say that to be consistent we  
>> should
>> add an absolute reminder to individual occurrences, not make reminder
>> changes apply to all occurrences.  Setting a later 5PM/8AM absolute
>> reminder when looking at an occurrence just seems like a one off
>> behavior, not something likely to apply to all occurrences.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Jeffrey
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