Mimi Yin wrote:
Reference: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5461
Copying items between Collections is essentially the same as DnDing
(Drag and Drop) items between Collections. It adds "the same item" to
the destination Collection.
*Q.* Can anyone think of any use cases for treating Copy and Paste
between Collections as "Add Duplicates of the Copied items to the
destination Collection"?
You are starting up 4 similar projects. You want to create a very
similar task that lives in each project, but you actually want 4
different tasks (they will have different statuses as they get
completed, for example). You want to create one and then 'duplicate' the
task in the other 3 collections.
We also want to support Copying and Pasting items within the same
Collection. However, if we extend the model we've established for
Copying and Pasting between Collections, C&P within a Collection is
essentially meaningless.
So, after chatting with Alec and Jeffrey briefly, we came up with the
following proposal:
Create a new Edit menu item called Duplicate (Cmd/Ctrl - D) which
creates a 2nd item that is essentially identical in every way with the
original item except that the 2nd item has a different UUID (and
different "date created", "created by" values as well).
And Copy and Paste is either:
1. Disabled when C&Ping within the same Collection; OR
2. If you Copy and Paste an event on the same calendar, it create
a recurring event with custom recurrence dates (e.g. Esther's scenario).
C&P within the same Collection would be disabled for non-event items.
If you don't want to create a custom recurrence, you can always use the
Duplicate menu item (Cmd/Ctrl - D) first and then Cut and Paste the
Duplicate.
The biggest downside of this approach is that Cmd/Ctrl - C is a lot more
common than Cmd/Ctrl - D, so users might accidentally create a custom
recurrence, when they really mean to Duplicate.
I like the proposal overall, and agree that the downside above is a bit
of a risk.
*Q. *What are use cases for using C&P to create a custom recurrence?
+ I'm a traveling salesperson. For the next 3 weeks, I'm going to visit
the same client and I take the same flight out on Monday morning and the
same flight back on Friday evening.
+ Esther's scenario: Scheduling an irregularly re-occurring board
meeting 18 times a year.
*Q. *What are use cases for Duplicate?
+ I am having a meeting with the same people in the same location about
a different topic tomorrow. I want to Duplicate today's meeting item and
re-title it for tomorrow's meeting.
Do other people have use cases? Which scenario is more common in
calendaring? Custom recurrence or Duplicate?
I think the duplicate case is going to look something like: I have a
meeting that is a little bit similar to some other meeting (some of the
same people), but not really related in any way. I copy/paste and then
delete some names, add some others. The copy/paste is just a way of
saving some typing, not implying any relationship at all between the
meetings.
Cheers,
Katie
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