On tis, 2004-04-13 at 10:50 +0100, Lincoln Phipps wrote: Hi, Will you get this dialog everytime you click the "Link" button or just when you have selected more than two tasks? I thinkt he dialog is too complex to show everytime you try to link two tasks. > Lag - this takes a string e.g. 1h, 1d or 1w etc and > maps this to the internally used lag which is in > seconds. It would be great if we could come up with a way of making it more obvious what this value can be (this is the problem in all places where you type a period). > Then the more unsual features which are more relevant when > you have a selection of tasks that you are linking, > > e.g. if you have tasks 1,2,3,4 then... > Cascade of links would be 1->2, 2->3, 3-> 4 etc > Fan-out of links would be 1->2, 1->3 1->4 etc > Fan-in of links would be 1->4, 2->4 , 3->4 Are these standard phrases, to me fan-out and fan-in doesn't make much sense when just seeing the dialog. Will it just use the first of the tasks (from above) to decide which one is to be the one used as "main task" in fan-out or fan-in or will it be decided with respect on the "Direction" selection? > Direction of upwards means link arrows flow upwards > visually, whereas downwards means link arrows flow > downards. Direction doesn't really tell much of what is going to happen. It says which way the arrow will point but what is really interesting is that the lower task will be blocking the one above instead of the other way around. In general I feel that the dialog is a bit complex and hard to understand. Mode and Direction doesn't (to me at least) make a lot of sense. Any ideas on how we can make it more clear what is going to happen once you click OK? Regards, Mikael Hallendal -- Imendio HB, http://www.imendio.com/
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