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Originally Posted by Tim Wood
We have some ideas for reporting for the future, but nothing specific for a 'Archive' section. I'm not sure what you envision a section would look like, so more details would be useful.
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Viewing completed actions serves two useful purposes. 1) It gives one a feeling of acomplishment, 2) and it serves as a kind of personal log.
I think there are two distinct and yet related needs here. 1) Historical reporting and 2) Archiving to make the database more efficient.
Some free-associated thoughts:
- I set up a "Completed Items" perspective as a way to review what I had done. Major problem I ran into here was that there was no way (that I could see) to view the relevant completion date information. Completion date is recorded in the inspector, but there apparently isn't any way to view it in a column.
- It would be nice to have a "historical" (journal?) mode that allowed you to view your completed actions with a journal-like (timeline-based) GUI.
- It shoudl be easy to answer questions like:
-----"Show me what I did today"
-----"Show me what I did last week"
-----"Show me what I did last month"
-----"Show me what I did on September 21, 2005"
- It should be able to filter based on folder/project, so that when printing a report for the boss, it did not include personal items.
- It should include reports that would look nice enough to hand in to the boss.
Regarding archiving for file efficiency, it is hard to say where this limit lies, but I am sure at some point it will be needed.
Couple thoughts regarding Archiving data:
- You should be abel to select which items you want to keep and which items you want to archive
- There should be some sort of indicator showing you how much space (and perhaps how much efficiency? will be gained) by archiving the current selection (updated in realtime as selections are changed)
- The archives should be able to be opened in a read-only state
- There should be an option to search across all of the archives
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Originally Posted by Tim Wood
If we moved it to an Archive section, we'd need to mirror exactly the folder tree that is in the sidebar; economy would dictate we should just leave it where it is.
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Would this still be the case if it where only possible to archive a project in it's entirety?
Would there be cases when you wanted to only archive part of a project (this requiring the mirror data structure)?