Re: [libreoffice-design] CMIS Check-In / Cancel Check-Out UI

Hi all,

we have been talking about the whole analysis stuff, vision, personas etc. on 
the conference - I think this is an perfect example to explain why we actually 
need them...

The UI component of an Check-In / Check-Out process obviously is extremely 
limited. A button, perhaps a dialogue, when you open a file, but it really 
depends on where we want to go in general to decide how to do it:

- How do we handle features that are only of use for users in a special (in 
this case a multiple user) environment?

- How important are users that need these kind of feature for the product 
strategy?

- How important is this feature relative to other features for the people that 
will actually use it (e.g. does it substitute the normal file open dialogue 
for them or does it need to be a seperate use-case?)

All of this needs to be answered in general in order to find a solution for 
this question - and other questions of the same kind.

I am curious how the answer from the active members of the design team will be 
- even though it is a really simple new feature, I am not able to answer the 
question without data / agreements / aassumptions / directions / artifacts we 
simply do not have.

Cheers,
Björn


Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012, 17:06:12 schrieb Cedric Bosdonnat:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have recently implemented the operation to checkout a document in the
> LibreOffice UI using an InfoBar (yes, editing a document that is not
> checked-out can lead to problems in some workflows).
>
> Now I'ld like to implement the Check-In / Cancel Check-Out operations
> that are related to that, but I don't see clearly how to integrate it
> best in the UI. So may be you'll have more ideas than me.
>
> Some precisions on these words and what they mean for the user in
> document management systems.
>
> Check-out: create a private copy of the document to work on it and lock
> the original document.
>
> Check-in: saves the private copy back into the original document and
> unlock it.
>
> Cancel check-out: loose all the changed that were saved to the private
> working copy and rollback to the original document's state.
>
> Any idea? At times I'm wondering whether entries in the File menu would
> be the right way to go... by I'm not sure.
>
> --
> Cedric
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