View Issues

This area is for discussing Chandler Views.

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by Chao Lam 16 Dec 2002
Views are the primary interface in which users browse, create and edit Chandler Jungle.Items.

As shown in the diagram above, a view consists of a view type and a set of queries applied to Chandler's data repositories. The view type is the user interaction implementation of the view and will have a well-documented set of APIs so that any developer can create their own view types tailored to specified items, tasks and workflows.

Chandler will ship with several view types as shown above and discussed in the links below. Specific applications then apply a query against a view type. For example, an Inbox view may use a tabular view against the user's email items.

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Subtopics:

• View Parcel Framework
• Tabular view
• Outline view^?
• IconView^?
• Item-detail view
• Composite view^?

• Proposed views

• End-user-defined view^?

• Queries^?

• Rules and filters -- probably implemented in part as Queries

External references

Web sites:

• Interesting data visualization by DanAncona^?

Mailing list messages:

• Meta-views, placeful, customisable "desktop" views by JoelFinkle^?
• View metaphors, icon positions, etc. by DavidNeeley^?
• allow view of multiple entries by JimDeLaHunt^?
• Meta-requirement: user interface by MikeCFletcher^?
• LeeHansen^? has a novel "turned whiteboard" view idea
• BillSeitz wants rich non-tabular representations of data

Contributors

• DuckySherwood - 09 Dec 2002
• ChaoLam - 16 Dec 2002

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