Re: Automatic restoration of published shares

On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:13 AM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

> I usually have one or two test collections on the hub that I don't
> normally want to appear in Chandler, but we could call that a corner
> case (I could always create a separate server account to own these
> test collections).  Do we want the user to be able to select which
> collections get restored (like the Restore Published Shares dialog
> does today)?  Or should Chandler just restore all the collections
> their server account owns?

Yes, I think we should just call this a corner case and let users  
deal with it themselves, either by deleting collections from Chandler  
Desktop after restoring them or using a separate account as you  
mentioned.

> Should there be any indicator in the UI
> that the restore process is happening, or should it be all in the
> background?  If in the background, where do I display errors, and will
> the user be surprised to see collections suddenly appearing in the
> sidebar?  I suppose that could be a pleasant surprise.  :-)

I think we should make it modal. It's a set-up task after all, just  
like reload, so I think it's okay to lock down the UI and make the  
process 'transparent' so that users are sure to see errors and whatnot.

>
> Next, how should the restoration be triggered?  We could add a button
> to the account dialog, or perhaps we trigger it when the accounts
> dialog is closed.  I suppose the restoration process could take place
> at the beginning of each sync.

Let's kick it off when users close the accounts dialog and see if we  
get any complaints before adding more UI.

>
> Anyway, those are quite a few questions for one email, and I'll let
> Mimi ponder those.  :-)
>
> After typing all this up, I guess my feeling is this should all be as
> transparent as possible, ideally with no additional UI to hook up
> Chandler to existing published shares.  The best bet would would
> probably be to have the process take place at each sync so the user
> doesn't have to do anything special to trigger it.

Yup, I think we're on the same page then.

>
> ~morgen
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