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NANY 2011 TaskDaddy Missing/Future Features Poll
mouser:
sorry just saw this now. although i am not an outlook user, during my screencast it seems reallly clear to me that on the very very top of your todo list should be a nice confirmation that the item was actually added, and some handling of the case when outlook was not running. i would absolutely do that before anything else, or you could get some irate users who thought they added things that never get added.
daddydave:
sorry just saw this now. although i am not an outlook user, during my screencast it seems reallly clear to me that on the very very top of your todo list should be a nice confirmation that the item was actually added, and some handling of the case when outlook was not running. i would absolutely do that before anything else, or you could get some irate users who thought they added things that never get added.
-mouser (January 19, 2011, 09:20 PM)
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Good points. What kind of confirmation would be good, without being too intrusive? As for "some handling of the case when outlook was not running," in my tests, Outlook didn't need to be running. If Outlook is not installed at all, it is supposed to give the error "Unable to open Microsoft Outlook object," which admittedly could be worded a little better. I admit I didn't actually test it on a machine that doesn't have Outlook on it, but I will now.
Confirmations and user friendly dates are both implying a config file to me, so I'd better get started on that, too.
mouser:
in my brief test, if outlook wasn't running the task seemed not to be added, and there was no error. that could be a misunderstanding on my part but that's what seemed to be happening.
confirmation is not so important IFF one could be very very convinced that an error would be reported, and the user RE-presented with their text if it failed to add.
daddydave:
in my brief test, if outlook wasn't running the task seemed not to be added, and there was no error.-mouser (January 20, 2011, 04:54 AM)
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That would be a bug then. It is supposed to add the task regardless. Now, when I was adding hundreds of tasks at a time from the tester, I got the impression that sometimes it took a while for Outlook to catch up and show all the tasks that had been added.
confirmation is not so important IFF one could be very very convinced that an error would be reported, and the user RE-presented with their text if it failed to add.
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It should display an error, I can't remember if it re-presents it, I will check that. Thanks for the feedback. :Thmbsup:
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