Re: [Evolution-hackers] functional specification for list view

[Tim Lee <tim exchange ximian com>]

Hi Anna,

Some suggestions for and questions about the Calendar list view.

Where you thinking at all of adding tasks to this view based on their
due date?

I agree that grouping would make this view much more useful. I think a
list does not lend itself to showing time relationships well. Being able
to group events by the day, week or month they occur in would help.

Would a meeting's status ( tentative vs. accepted vs. canceled ) be
displayed.

Would all day events be differentiated from "normal" events? Would they
start at midnight?

Will people be allowed to add new events in this view? 

Will there be a way of showing meetings with conflicting/overlapping
times? I think this will be necessary if people are going to be able to
edit event times in the view.

Under other columns I would add a meeting organizer column.

By send do you mean schedule a meeting or forward as iCalendar?

I think it might be useful to provide a means of filtering/viewing the
list by date/time. The simplest would be to filter events occurring
between two dates. For example only display events that occur on M-F
this week. Though more sophisticated filters might be useful ( events
ending after 5:00 PM, starting before 10:00 AM on Mondays, etc. ). 

Other useful filters/views might include:
- meeting attendee(s)
- my/other attendee status
- meeting organizer

Would events that have their time shown as Free vs. Busy be
differentiated?

Would the fields in the preview pane be editable? That might be a nice
feature, but how difficult would it be to implement?

That's all I can think of for now.

Sincerely, Tim

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 15:01, Anna Marie Dirks wrote:
> Greetings Calendar Hackers (and other interested parties): 
> 
> I have prepared a functional specification for the list view of the
> Evolution 2.0 Calendar.
> 
> Please find it online at:
> http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/specs/cal-spec.html
> 
> Please let me know what questions you have regarding it. I am happy to
> work with you guys to add or remove information from the spec as we deem
> appropriate (in terms of our resources, usability needs, and project
> goals). 
> 
> I will be at an appointment for a goodly chunk of the rest of the
> afternoon -- there hence may be a bit of a lag in responding to your
> mails. Thanks for your patience.
> 
> Anna