Re: Status of the CALSCH working group (QUERYID)

[email protected] wrote:

>
> Doug replied on 11/07/2003 04:14:11 PM:
> > > EXPAND and QUERYID -- I am having a hard time understanding how 
> stored
> > > queries can be useful without search wildcards. Can anyone explain
> > > this to me? We dropped the ability to auto execute stored queries.
> >
> > There is NO restriction that the results of fetching a stored query
> > return static results (the
> >  same is true for all components) . So I could define (using 
> unspecified
> > admin tools) a stored
> > query called 'TODAY' that returns a dynamically returns a VQUERY when
> > run returns the results of todays events from several calendars.
>
> A: There were several questions regarding the usefulness and behaviour 
> of stored queries so the WG (except for Doug) decided to defer the 
> entire concept to post CAP 1.0 so they could be adequately addressed. 

And they were.

>
> B: The original intent was to make it easier for 'thin' clients to do 
> normal queries and save them bandwidth and memory footprints.  However 
> we never actually had wildcarding in the language (or we lost it at 
> some point) so we failed to fulfil the original intent. 

As pointed out on the list bandwidth limiting is not nessasasarly tied 
to wildcards.

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