Customizing the summary table: Organizing items in a single view

Open Issues

• How do we do ad-hoc sections? How do they integrate with attribute-based sections?
• How does composite calendar view work? Does it just display calendar items from the active collection? or from all calendars? or from a default subset of calendars? How does it integrate with the Dashboard view?
• What is the workflow for labelling items?

Motivation

Allow users relatively easy access organizing items in a view including:

• What attributes to display
• Sort order
• Sectioning (both ad-hoc and attribute based)
• View items on a calendar

Workflows

• Selecting an item
• MD on an item, hilites the item
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• Reordering items
• Select an item
• Drag it to where you want to put it
• Reorder MO bar appears in between items
• Drop item on reorder MO bar
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• Adding links to other collections as items
• DnD items from sidebar navigation and detail view into content area to add links to collections (explicit and generic) as an item in a collection.
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• Labelling items
• Triage
• Context
• Project

• Sorting items
• Select Sort item display type
• 1-click on column header to sort items in ascending order
• 2-click on column header to sort items in descending order
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• Sectioning items
• Select Sectioned item display type
• MD and hold to get pulldown menu of sectioning options
  • By default collections
  • Ad-hoc sections
  • Date
  • Who
  • What
  • Project
  • Edit list of attributes
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• Items on a calendar
• Select calendar item display type (Month, Week, View)
• Creates composite 2-pane view
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• Displaying attributes
• Select column header
• Right click to
  • Remove column
  • Add column: select from a quicklist of attribute or launch Attribute manager helper window
  • Change attribute: select from a quicklist of attribute or launch Attribute manager helper window
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