> 1) Currently, a top-level icon blinks red whenever there are down or > acknowledged devices on its sub-map. > > Questions: > - Matt and Steve suggested that a top-level icon should be blue if everything > on its sub-map has been acknowledged. Do you agree? Is there some other > representation that would be better?
Did I say that? ;-) Let me try again. When you ACK a box you are effectively saying, "Yes, I know about that one. Don't remind me." So in deciding what color to make a top-level icon, IM should disregard any ACK'd boxes in the sub-map. In other words, the color of the top-level box should be the worst case of the un-ACK'd boxes in the sub-map. > - Should InterMapper allow you to acknowledge everything on a sub-map by > acknowledging the top-level icon? No. > 3) Hierarchy of maps. This gets tricky, especially when people make lots of > maps. Here's a suggestion that allows for a hierarchical menu of maps: > > InterMapper's Windows menu should show all the maps, but list all the maps that > contain sub-maps at the top, with a ">" for a submenu, and the "leaf maps" at > the bottom. So far, so good. Hold on there. That sounds like some maps would appear twice (or more) on the pulldown - once on the main pulldown and again via the ">" next to their parent maps. Whew, too complicated! Why not follow the paradigm that Macs use for heirarchical pulldowns. Items appear just once, in alphabetic order. It's multi-layered as needed. > - Would sub-maps ever be shared between higher level maps? (If so, that rules > out a simple "go to parent map" command.) It seems like it's a lot of work to prevent this, so why not just allow it? The "go to parent" can go to whichever parent it wants. If people get confused, it's their own fault for building confusing maps. > - Would a sub-map ever have a parent map as a sub-map? Is it ever useful to > make a loop, where MapA watches MapB which watches MapC, which itself watches > MapA? (And Bill, Tex, and Christopher: does anything bad happen if someone does > this? :-) I can't think of a use for this, and it really sounds like a potential headache. Don't allow it. > 4) How useful would it be to have a "site map" of the map hierarchy? (After all, > we have a tool that's pretty good at drawing interconnections between items :-) That would probably be useful, especially if you do allow a map to have multiple parents. > 5) We need a concise name for "the icon on the top-level map that represents the > most serious condition on the sub-map". What should we call that thing? Call it where? In your documentation? Map icon? (As opposed to router icon, network icon, etc.) Steve Campbell Dartmouth College ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
