Re: Call for Open Design Issues

Yes, that's weird that the dialog says Occurrences and then Items. We  
don't have any immediate plans however.

On the Desktop, the dialog reads:

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Recurring Event Change
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"Event Title" is a recurring event. Do you want to change (remove):

[Cancel]          [All Events] [Future Events] [This Event]
===

Mimi

On Oct 15, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Matthew Eernisse wrote:

>
> Currently, the text of the dialog is:
>
> "This is a recurring event. Which occurrences do you wish to change?"
>
> And there are three buttons:
>
> All Items, All Future Items, and Only This Item
>
> So we have three different terms we're using in kind of a mushy way  
> to refer both to the entire recurrence series, and the individual  
> items in the series. Sure, you can likely intuit more-or-less what  
> it means, but it's not ideal. I think we can do better.
>
> A few thoughts:
>
> 1. Whatever term we use for the individual occurrences, it should  
> be the word on the buttons. We shouldn't ask them what they want to  
> do with certain 'occurrences,' and then say 'items' on the buttons.  
> Inconsistency is fine, when it serves a significant purpose.  
> "'Occurrence' is too long a word for a button" doesn't seem that  
> compelling as a reason to use two different words.
>
> 2. I think it might make sense to avoid the word 'event,' since  
> you're changing/removing more than the event-ness. Can items recur  
> without an event stamp? If that's possible, you could see this  
> dialog in association with recurring items in list view that are  
> not even events.
>
> I'd like to propose something like this:
>
> "This is a recurring item. Which items in the series do you wish to  
> change?"
>
> All Items, All Future Items, and Only This Item
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Matthew
>
> p.s. Hope you have a good vacation, Mimi. :)
>
>
> Mimi Yin wrote:
>> I am leaving for vacation this Saturday for 2 weeks. Are there any  
>> open issues that need to be resolved before then? Bugs? Mock-ups?  
>> etc.
>> What I currently have on my plate includes:
>> 1. Staff Mtg Presentation: Setting up KEI Creative to use Chandler  
>> to collaborate on projects
>> 2. Syncing up with Philippe for Desktop 1.0 Planning
>> 3. Preparation for FLOSS Usability Sprint in Nov.
>> 4. Work through some design issues for Multi-Week view (Reid/Jeffrey)
>> 5. Sample data set for Desktop OOTB experience
>> 6. Summarize design list for last couple of weeks
>> 7. Calendar colors on Chandler Hub
>> Close out some threads / bugs on the Design List:
>> + Improvements to the reload dialog has been hanging open for some  
>> time.
>> + Reconciling various sharing URLs
>> What's missing?
>> Mimi
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