[daisy] Better desktop integration

[Jorg Heymans]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Parisi, Lou <Lou.Parisi at photomask.com>
wrote:

> >Jorg wrote:
> >At first sight, it seems that the desktop integration assumes that the
> >"master" copy of a document (e.g. a Word or PPT doc) is stored in
> Daisy, is >this correct ? If so, how about the case where the master
> copy is stored >outside Daisy (e.g. locally or network drive) ? Can this
> be managed by the >desktop integration tool (DIT) as well ?
>
> I think it would be better to use a version control repository model
> instead of allowing the master copy to be stored outside of Daisy.
> Assuming multiple people can edit the Daisy document, storing the master
> outside of Daisy may not be desirable.
>

I don't think there is anything to allow or disallow here. IMO Daisy should
not make too many assumptions or requirements on how or where a document
exists before it is uploaded to it.

It is just so that (for our usecase at least) people often refer to existing
msoffice documents when writing documentation or manuals in Daisy. These
documents are sourced from external document management systems or
well-known protected locations on a network drive. The documents are
accessible (both r/o and r/w) by many other people that don't even know (or
care) about the existence of Daisy. The original master document location
thus cannot be changed. The fact that the document attachment might get
outdated because of updates to the original outside of Daisy is fully OK,
and sometimes even desirable.


> Using the version control model with Daisy acting as the repository, the
> desktop integration would download the document to the desktop from
> Daisy to a defined working location with metadata about the daisy
> document/part and version downloaded.  After edit on the desktop, the
> document would be uploaded back to Daisy.  Prior to uploading, the
> version can be checked and an alert raised if the document has changed
> on Daisy since you retrieved your copy.
>

Again, this is perfectly fine when you assume that the master copy of the
document attachment is always stored in Daisy. But that's a big assumption
to make IMHO.

Thanks,
Jorg
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