[Design] Re: [Cosmo] Auto-triaging events in the web UI

[Mimi Yin]

This is truly excellent. (Assuming I understood what you wrote  
correctly.)

On Jun 29, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Bobby Rullo wrote:

> Mimi,
>
> A lot of autotriage/tickling is already done, as is support for  
> that doAutoTriageOnDateChangeFlag. More detail in line. Also, I'm  
> crossposting to Cosmo because there is code-y stuff in here that is  
> important for other cosmo UI devs.
>
> On Jun 29, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> Bobby,
>>
>> Matthew and I reviewed the new detail view and dashboard today and  
>> we came across a questions re: auto-triaging.
>>
>> How will auto-triaging work wrt Creating and Editing items?
>
> Very well, thank you. But seriously.
>
> Creating items has similar rules to what I understand to be  
> Chandler's - plain jane notes get a triage as "now". Event-stamped  
> notes triage as the NOW, LATER, or DONE if they event is happening/ 
> will happen/has happened.
>
> Same goes for editing events, except that if the dATODC is set  to  
> false, this triage status will never change.
>
> Note that the UI programmer never has to deal with this stuff - it  
> all happens when you apply a Delta (the cosmo ui object which  
> encapsulates changes) to an item.
>
>> Will events be auto-triaged every time the user edits the event  
>> date/time fields?
>>
>
> Yup, unless dATODC is set to false.
>
> Incidentally, it's just called "autoTriage" in cosmo ui, so you can  
> just call "item.getAutoTriage()"
>
>
>> What about the 'doAutoTriageOnDateChange' flag? I know we've  
>> discussed supporting it, but I don't think we ever talked about  
>> what needs to happen in the UI to make that work. Essentially,  
>> we'd need some way to tell that the user has manually set triage  
>> status on an item so we can set the dATODC to False.
>>
>
> Already done.
>
>> dATODC should be set to False automatically when events are  
>> 'tickled' to NOW.
>> We should also respect dATODC=False from Chandler Desktop users.
>>
> Done and done.
>
>> Should I log bugs for these two things? It might be okay to punt  
>> on supporting 'explicit triage' on events for Chandler Hub users.  
>> But I think we need to support respecting dATODC=False from  
>> Desktop users.
>>
>
> We support explicit triage on events...if it means what I think  it  
> means....
>
> bobby
>
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