CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
SDS Concepts, Action Items, 950729
Highlight, Follow up, 910326
Menu Bar/Box Design/Appearance
Menu, System Design, Intuitive

0806 -    ..
0807 - Summary/Objective
0808 -
080801 - Followed up work at ref SDS 7 line 28.
080802 -
080803 - Got the menu system active again.  Made pointer in SDS records open
080804 - the Schedule or Diary when these are clicked in the annotate field, so
080805 - the program may be a little more intuitive.  Decided to position SDS
080806 - records when they are first opened to the first "Summary/Objective"
080807 - section, since this provides real information about what the thing is
080808 - about.  Changed the code that opens SDS records and the Schedule so if
080809 - these are already opened, their existing position remains constant,
080810 - rather than starting from top of the file.  This makes the mouse more
080811 - useful, similar to using Ctrl F6 or the CMD position to scroll the
080812 - file chain.
080813 -
080814 -
0809 -
0810 -
0811 - Progress
0812 -
081201 - Menu Organization
081202 -
081203 - Today I am thinking about not using "View" developed yesterday at ref
081204 - SDS 7 line 28, and putting the stuff in the "Manage" and "Reports"
081205 - menu.
081206 -
081207 - Decided to strive for a common menu structure for both SDS records and
081208 - the Schedule.  "Manage" is already in Schedule and sets SDS apart a
081209 - bit in offering unique functions for "executive management."  We are
081210 - keeping "Contacts" and "Diary" near the front of the menu, because
081211 - they take data entry and the only access to it is by using the tab
081212 - key.  The new layout minimizes the number of keystrokes to reach the
081213 - data entry position.
081214 -
081215 -      Eliminate Data Entry in Menu Bar
081216 -
081217 -      Actually, we could do away with data entry in the main menu bar,
081218 -      and simply use the pointer to click open the menu and do the data
081219 -      entry there.  If the pointer is used, then there are actually
081220 -      fewer keystrokes without using the menu bar for data entry.
081221 -
081222 -      The problem is that some users perfer the Tab key rather than
081223 -      using the pointer.  Sometimes the pointer is not available. There
081224 -      remains some convenience to performing data entry in the menu
081225 -      bar.
081226 -
081227 -      Schedule/Diary Annotate Fields
081228 -
081229 -      Made these active and changed the way macro 94 and 96 open the
081230 -      Schedule and Diary.  We want the cursor position to remain
081231 -      constant rather than starting over so the User can scroll
081232 -      between screens.
081233 -
081234 -      This merely supplements the Ctrl F6 function which already
081235 -      accomplishes these tasks.  It may be more intuitive because a
081236 -      User could be drawn to click on "Schedule/Diary" to get these
081237 -      parts of the program, whereas, the intent is really to indicate
081238 -      this is a "Schedule/Diary" record.
081239 -
081240 -
081241 - Report Concept
081242 -
081243 - I considered today an alternate process of calling a report screen and
081244 - then figuring out what to put in it.  SDS currently does reports by
081245 - first deciding what the report is for, and then calling a report
081246 - screen to go get it.  If we have a "Report" menu, people may
081247 - intuitively feel it should open a report screen to fill out.
081248 -
081249 -
081250 - Action Items
081251 -
081252 - Another idea is to create a separate inventory of Action Items.  What
081253 - is not clear is how to track them, unless they are part of the Subject
081254 - Index.  Our aim is to avoid proliferation of the SI, and to avoid
081255 - having to manually enter stuff in the SI.  Possibly we can create a
081256 - routine that manufactures an SI?  I considered today using the
081257 - "Special" Control Field for Action Items.  It is not clear how it
081258 - would work other than by entering the stuff in the SI, and I don't
081259 - want it to work that way.
081260 -
081261 - What was the original idea?  See ref SDS 1 line 139, and later at ref
081262 - SDS 2 line 48.
081263 -
081264 - We are going to keep the same basic system, but hopefully make it
081265 - easier to implement using ideas at ref SDS 2 line 48.
081266 -
081267 - The main changes at ref SDS 4 line 97, are related to the SDS menu
081268 - system, to create a separate Headline feature to supplement Action
081269 - Items.
081270 -
081271 - The first step is to get the menu bar active again.
081272 -
081273 -
0813 -
0814 -
0815 -

SUBJECTS
Highlight, Follow up, 910326
Menu Bar/Box Design/Appearance
Menu, System Design, Intuitive
Open SDS records
Citations, open SDS records

1408 - 000003
1409 -
140901 - Continue work at ref SDS 6 line 357.
140902 -
140903 -    Changed "Other" to "Tools."
140904 -
140905 - Line 270 -entry 80, about 70 lines below,
140906 -
140907 -      I am thinking this evening about making the "Schedule" entry in
140908 -      the annotate field of an SDS record, open the User's Schedule by
140909 -      clicking.  Did this under work on 000001, below.
140910 -
140911 - Line 615 -label diary9, eliminated separate menu locations for
140912 - Schedule and SDS records.
140913 -
140914 -
140915 - Line 690 -label regmnu, about 70 lines below, adjusted the new column
140916 - positions for the revised fields, including the change from "Subjcts"
140917 - to "Subjects"
140918 -
140919 - Line 835 -entry 809, the above changes to the menu for SDS records
140920 - required changing the code for the "End" key (pfe).  Moved the initial
140921 - cursor location from column 68 to 75.
140922 -
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140924 -
140925 -
140926 -
1410 -
1411 -
1412 - 050405
1413 -
141301 - Line 15 - change the column position for Diary, which is moved from
141302 - the "Manage" menu.
141303 -
141304 - Line 195 -label rcrdsQ, will move this to 0504051 and will bring
141305 - in from 0504051 the Diary menu.
141306 -
141307 - Added a call to the SDS Schedule screen.  Modifeid macro 94 so it
141308 - exits after opening the Schedule, if the Schedule is already in
141309 - memory.  This supports using the menu to scroll between screens rather
141310 - than Ctrl F6.
141311 -
141312 - Will also add a way to make this call using the
141313 -
141314 -
1414 -
1415 -
1416 - 0504051
1417 -
141701 - Line 10 - Moved the "Records" menu from 050405 to this menu file and
141702 - renamed it "Manage."  Changed "Other" to "Tools."
141703 -
141704 - Moved Diary and Schedule from "Manage" and put them in "Diary" in the
141705 - 050405 menu file.
141706 -
141707 -
141708 -
141709 -
1418 -
1419 -
1420 - 000005   Opening Schedule
1421 -
142101 - Line 1985 -entry 94, about 20 lines below, added conditional to avoid
142102 - setting up the Schedule if it is already opened.  This supports using
142103 - the menu system to return to it rather than Ctrl F6.
142104 -
142105 -
1422 -
1423 -
1424 - 0000008
1425 -
142501 - Annotate Field for SDS Records
142502 -
142503 - Line 1855 -entry 1571, about 35 lines below, changed the annotation
142504 - field for archived diary records to show "Schedule/Diary" so we
142505 - support a menu access to the Schedule and Diary functions by clicking
142506 - on these fields on the screen.
142507 -
142508 -     Formerly this used "Schedule/Diary" only for current SDS records,
142509 -     and we used "Diary" for archived recrods to distinguish them,
142510 -     however, the different colors of these records is adequate to
142511 -     alert the user, and we can make better use of a constant content
142512 -     in the annotate field.
142513 -
142514 -
142515 - Open SDS Records
142516 -
142517 - Line 2030 -entry 1601, tried adding code that positions an SDS record
142518 - at the Summary/Objective section when it is first opened, instead of
142519 - at the top, since there is no data entry at that location.
142520 -
142521 -     This supplements the work under 000006 explained below.
142522 -
142523 -
1426 -
1427 -
1428 - 000006   Open SDS Records
1429 -
142901 - Line 610 -label prGSm, about 10 lines below, added conditional to exit
142902 - from the code that opens SDS records from the Schedule screen, so the
142903 - program will leave an SDS record in its current position if it is
142904 - already open, rather than starting from the top of the record.
142905 -
142906 -    [See follow up considering adding this feature to open citations
142907 -    from within SDS records, ref SDS 8 line 40.]
142908 -
142909 - This supplements the work in 000008 explained above.
142910 -
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142912 -
142913 -
1430 -
1431 -
1432 - 000001
1433 -
143301 - Opening Schedule/Diary with Pointer
143302 -
143303 - Line 315 -entry 230, this is the code that reads the pointer.  Want
143304 - it to execute the Schedule or Diary function based on the annotate
143305 - field.
143306 -
143307 - Right now it scrolls the file up a line.  Since this same function
143308 - occurs when the command is clicked beyond 10 columns of the CMD
143309 - field, we don't need this function in the Annotate field also.
143310 -
143311 - Line 1055 -label prfDN, about 10 lines below, changed the pointer from
143312 - doing a "down" command when clicked in the annotate field, to opening
143313 - the Schedule and Diary.
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