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

Bryan Stearns stearns at osafoundation.org
Fri Jun 29 16:19:10 PDT 2007


Oops - Jeffrey tactfully pointed out that I was wrong: we *do* set 
doAutoTriageOnDateChange to False when an item tickles to Now.

...Bryan

Bryan Stearns wrote:
> See below...
>
> 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?
>> Will events be auto-triaged every time the user edits the event 
>> date/time fields?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> dATODC should be set to False automatically when events are 'tickled' 
>> to NOW.
>> We should also respect dATODC=False from Chandler Desktop users.
> That's not how doAutoTriageOnDateChange works for the desktop (and 
> doing it differently on the server will likely be confusing). 
> doAutoTriageOnDateChange starts out True, and is set to False when the 
> user manually changes the item's triage status. It's currently never 
> set to True again, though Mimi has suggested resetting it to True if 
> any change (auto or manual) causes it to become what automatic triage 
> would set it to) -- we're not doing this for Preview, however.
>
> ...Bryan
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Mimi
>>
>>
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