Saturday, March 19, 2005

done with journals, for the moment

As previously outlined, Journal displays are now a great deal more comprehensive. That creates a problem when the activity applies to a part of the well known--as in the case when a relation dictionary is updated. We have not yet established names for subparts. (AKA second class user objects?)

But lets wait on that, least we get too far ahead of ourselves.

One of the current weaknesses is when there is ambiguity of name reference--currently being shaded gray. Current action is to pick one and go to the journal. Rather, a special pick page should be used--the journal just shows too much data.

Also, I'm thinking that the datasets a page is a member of should generally be displayed. This info should likely also be included on a pick page as well.

Topics remaining: qualified references and advanced citation processing, specialized displays, file-specific commands, secondary user objects.

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