Beta 1 Feedback

[Steve Nygard]

On Sunday, March 17, 2002, at 10:27  PM, John Oram wrote:

> Does anyone know how the summaries work for text/rich text?  At first I 
> didn't think there was anything.  However, sometimes values revert to 
> their previous value when I try to edit them.  Is this a bug or a 
> feature?  Unfortunately I've only been able to replicate the behaviour 
> sporadically, so this could be something else entirely.)

Summaries for text and rich text don't do anything.

The values that you see reverting to their previous value when you edit 
them is a bug with text columns in 2.0 beta 1.  I've fixed that problem 
for the next beta, but in the meantime I recommend not using text 
columns.  (Rich text is fine.)

>> I'm a bit confused as to the value of hidden summaries...
>
> Me too (though it is a nice way to keep things from getting 
> unnecessarily cluttered).

That's why I added it.  Imagine an outline with product features in the 
outline column, and two columns of checkboxes for different products.  
You really only need checkboxes at the leaf rows, and since the 
checkboxes are all at the same horizontal position it's hard to 
distinguish which ones are summary checkboxes.

There are other places that I thought it might be useful, but in 
practice I've used the other two types instead.

> Is there any way to hide columns?  A step beyond that would be a column 
> hierarchy.  I'd love to be able to collapse columns like we can with 
> rows.

There currently isn't a way to hide columns but I plan on adding that 
sometime in the future.  This way people who don't want to see the note 
column in every outline will be able to hide it.  (You can't remove the 
note column.)

I hope this helps,
--
Steve