[daisy] Better desktop integration

[Jorg Heymans]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Parisi, Lou <Lou.Parisi at photomask.com>
wrote:

> >Jorg wrote:
> >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.
>
> To me it seems like having multiple versions around becomes an
> information management problem.  Which is the correct version of a
> document?  If the master is not in Daisy, and some people may be editing
> the master and not even know about Daisy, then maybe Daisy should just
> have a link to the master document on the network share instead of a
> potentially outdated copy attached.
>

That would be one way of doing it yes. Unfortunately network share links
don't translate all that well across our intranet environment. Different
departments having different mapped drives, a user in dept A has no access
to a shared drive from dept B, etc etc.

On the other hand, this is really a decision for the actual user so
> perhaps you are correct in your interpretation of not imposing too many
> restrictions.  Then it just becomes a development resource question
> since the two paradigms will have different features.


Let's see what Karel has to say about it, after all he's the one that will
be developing this :-P

Cheers,
Jorg
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