June 15, 2006 Agenda and Minutes

Agenda

1. Toggling visibility UI
   • The essential question here is - do users need to be able to do this from the main resources listing? The general opinion seems to be "No"
2. Scheduling visibility UI
   • A combination of a text field with a calendar GUI element seems to be the clear favorite, but this would require a developer commitment to complete the widget within our timeframe.
   • Absent that commitment, what is the best near-term compromise?
3. Re-ordering UI
   • A clear preference hasn't come together yet, and it looks like doing this right (drag and drop?) may be ambitious.
4. Specific commitments
   • What responsibilities are each of us taking on, particularly for development? Who can do what, and when?
5. Project Management
   • The plan for coordinating our efforts, whatever its decided those are going to be.
6. Reality check: is this feasible within our timeframe?

All of the following concern the re-ordering UI, so if we postpone that functionality they're moot.

1. What do we call this: Re-order/Re-sort/Organize?
2. Do we use arrows or numbering? Both?
3. Do we do a multiple folder sort? (The gathering consensus seems to be that we don't.)
4. Where is the button for this functionality: with Checked" items or in the Options section? What is it called?

Minutes

Consensus items:

• Toggling should involve no extra action (or UI column/component) from the main resources listing.
• Scheduling and visibility should not cascade out to attachments
• Add/Revise pages should handle visibility+scheduling with 3 radio buttons (e.g. Show, Hide, Schedule), so that things are kept simpler by excluding the possibility of dates interfering with manual toggling.

Action Items and responsibilities:

• Kathy (and Daphne?) will work up a design for a Date UI widget that solves the issues we've discussed.
• Zach is available for helping out with tool and CHS code, where Jim needs it.
• Mike is going to work on an attempt to use drag-and-drop reordering.
• Soo Il Kim at BU will work on the Javascript coding for the Date UI widget, and Mike says he has some javascript guys that could help, if needed. He'll be working from the design produced by Kathy (and Daphne?) above, and will be using Melete's date widget as a starting point.
• UNISA has a lot of QA resources that they can devote when we come to that.

We will have weekly meetings, at this time (11 am EDT on Thursdays).

Next week's meeting will focus on the reordering UI questions.