Re: [Planner Dev] Planner enhancement - use resource patch against CVS 011 20040316.

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

tor 2004-03-18 klockan 11.55 skrev lincoln phipps openmutual net:
> Richard Hult wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > tis 2004-03-16 klockan 23.28 skrev lincoln phipps openmutual net:
> > 
> >>Attached is the use resource patch. It adds a nice little
> >>button plus menu actions and right-mouse task of Use Resource.
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe we should call it "Assign resources"?
> 
> 
> I thought about this and ended up with the verb "Use", though
> Assign is equally meaningful its a longer word :)

Might be better. Any comments from the rest of the crew? :) We can
always change it later, I guess.

> >>This simply pops up a dialog that simply has the resources
> >>on it.
> >>
> >>Where it helps is when you ctrl/shift-click multiple tasks.
> >>Then it opens up one dialog per task in quick succession
> >>(dialogs layered on top of each other).
> > 
> > Maybe we should make it popup no more than say 5 or 10 of those at a
> > time? Just to prevent a mistake where you accidentally select all and
> > choose this feature...
> 
> Not 5 or 10 but lots !. I've actually used it on my current 100 task
> project, selected all tasks and gone through each tweaking the
> resources -> close dialog, tweak resource -> close dialog etc etc.
> In the past this would have taken a lot of time ! It doesn't seem to
> cause any problems i.e. it doesn't hang or crash if you select
> all and -> Use Resource so I'd like to leave it as it is.

Well, I'd rather put some limit even if it's 20, and maybe a popup
saying that it was limited. If you have 1000 tasks and accidentally get
1000 windows up, I'm sure the window manager and X will get in trouble.
I'm not even sure you can have that many toplevel windows in X, iirc
there's some limit.

> > I was thinking, what do you think about making the menu/button popup the
> > task dialog with the resources page active instead of using a separate
> > dialog?
> 
> Though it seems like adding extra code it was really to make it a
> clean presentation to tweak resources so I really wanted it to
> popup this 1 very focused dialog to help satisfy the project managers
> responsibility of updating resource allocations.  Once a set of
> project tasks is decided then the next step in project management
> is the initial allocation of resources and then refactoring
> these resource allocations.
> 
> The dialog is just showing the relationship between the tasks and
> the resources and therefore shouldn't show the whole task (nor the
> whole resource), only the things that affect the two.

Well I was just thinking that there would be one way to do resource
assignment instead of two => less confusion for users, less code to
maintain, less UI to get consistent.

Since the resource tab would be selected, it would look mostly the same
as your suggestion, plus it would be exactly the same code and
look-n-feel as when dealing with it elsewhere.

/Richard

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