Restore Collections Proposal

At some point when I was dogfooding Chandler (I think it was still 0.6 at the time) I was having a really hard time remembering to 'set up my account' and to 'restore/publish my collections'. This was before you could restore your collections in the 'test' menu. My point was that it seemed only the advanced users were going to be able to understand how to set up an account/restore collections in the current UI. This proposal was to create an easier experience for the not so advanced users.

I started working on these mock ups/storyboards and remember meeting with Sheila/Mimi sometime back in July 2006. I think we settled on the fact that advanced users would be able to use the current UI and we would revisit this later to create a better UI and help the not so advanced users.

Also see:

• Account Set Up Proposal
• Publish Collections Proposal

Currently when user's delete their repository and run Chandler again, they need to restore all their shares individually. Published shares are restored using the restore menu item. You have to select each sharing account individually and restore share one at a time. For subscribed shares, you will have to re-subscribe to URLs one at a time.

The design team proposed that there be some one-step way to re-create your sharing world a bit easier. The proposal is to replace the current restore dialog with a hierarchical view of all your sharing accounts and what shares you have published under that account. This wold be folled by a list of the shares we have subscribed to.

Storyboard

• Step 1 What does the user want to recover?:
  

• Step 2 All my collections/subscriptions:
  

• Step 3 User unchecks 'All' and selects only checks the selected subscriptions':
  

• Step 4 Restoring collection:
  

• Step 5 Confirmation that collection has been restored:
  

-- PriscillaChung - 26 Mar 2007