Recent changes to feature-requests

My Events doesn't list chronologically

Ryan Seney — Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:18:36 -0000

I noticed that in "My Events" that the events are listed by
order i added them.... just wondering if this was
normal... i thought it should be by date of the event, but
i don't know....

better date posting interface

Liam Morley — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:27:54 -0000

It would be nice to have an easier date posting
interface in dHTML that's more like software, less like
the web. Examples might be the Outlook Calendar feature
or the Mozilla Calendar feature.

Automatically log in after registration

Oleg Rekutin — Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:03:41 -0000

Currently, after a user is successfully registered on the
site, he/she is shown a "Registration successful page,
you can now login." He/she then has to login with their
new username/password.

I think it would be more convenient if the web site
automatically logged in the users after registration.
Presumably people registering want to take advantage of
some features available only when they are logged in. If
they did not want to be logged in, they can click Log out
or just close the browser.

Auto fill-in "end date" on Create Event

Oleg Rekutin — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:37:08 -0000

We will have a ton of one-day events. Right now if I
enter month, day, year, hour, minute and AM/PM for
Start Date, I have to enter all of that for End Date.

Desired behavior:

After I TAB into the first "End Date" field, pre-fill
the entire line to be the exact duplicate of Start Date
plus one hour.

This way, instead of entering 6 values for Start Date
and 6 values for End Date, for most events I will only
need to enter 6 values for Start Date and 1 value for
End Date. 12 vs 7--good savings.

Events that will require changing of more than 3 "End
Date" values (that differ from Start Date) are quite
rare. For example, how many events will we have that
begin in one year and end in another?

Task confirmations shouldn't be pages

Oleg Rekutin — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:27:10 -0000

Peforming a task results in a page that says only
"Created BAH successfully" (or whatever the task was).
I have to manually get back to the page where I came from.

Instead, the behavior should be as follows. Once a task
is *successfully* carried out, the page from which I
began doing the task should be displayed, along with a
message up top that says "Did XYZ successfully."

Currently, when adding multiple events, my workflow is
as follows:

* Go to My Tasks.
Shows me tasks page.
* Select Create Event task.
Shows me "new event" form.
* Submit info.
Shows me the confirmation page.
* Go to My Tasks.
Shows me tasks page.
* Select Create Event task.
Shows me "new event" form.
* Submit info.
Shows me the confirmation page.

With the this improvement, the workflow would be
adjusted as follows:

* Go to My Tasks.
Shows me tasks page.
* Select Create Event task.
Shows me "new event" form.
* Submit info.
Shows me tasks page with confirmation message.
* Select Create Event task.
Shows me "new event" form.
* Submit info.
Shows me tasks page with confirmation message.

Note that the original step of "going to my tasks" is
not repeated. That's the savings. If getting to the
original step of some other tasks requires more page
loads (maybe it's two clicks away somewhere), then
that's more overhead that can be saved.

Office contact form emails

Chuck Haines — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 03:07:30 -0000

On the office contact form, can we either have the
generic emails of the offices listed (ex,
webmaster@gdc.wpi.edu) or have the ability to have the
names of the people links to their email address (ex
mailto:webmaster@gdc.wpi.edu).

Return to My Tasks after deleting object

Chuck Haines — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 03:02:00 -0000

Can we add either a button that says "Return to My
Tasks" or have the page automagically redirect to My
Tasks after successfully deleting an object.

Add cancel button to delete action

Chuck Haines — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 03:00:29 -0000

It would be nice if you could click cancel when
deleting an item that you don't mean to delete instead
of "surfing somewhere else" if you don't really want to
delete something.

Forums

Chuck Haines — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 02:28:03 -0000

Can we implement the forums. I will give you the MYSQL
tables so that we can keep the same schema.

profile display

Liam Morley — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 18:04:09 -0000

Users can currently have profiles. At the moment, they
consist simply of their username and their email
address. Users should be able to decide whether or not
their email addresses should be public. Users should
also be able to store other information there.. for
example, their AIM/ICQ name, a description of
themselves, or whatever else somebody decides to add.

Please add comments and suggestions.