On 2/14/15 11:42 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> Ok, I've pushed an attempt at doing this.
>>
>> For each mailthread, you can now create annotations. Each annotation is
>> connected to a mail in the thread, and has a free text comment field. The
>> message will then automatically be "highlighted" out of the archives and a
>> direct link to the message include, alongside the text comment.
>>
>> I *think* this is approximately what people wanted, so let's give it a shot.
>> If you have a chance, please test it out and comment as soon as you can - if
>> I'm completely off track with how it's done, we should back it out and try a
>> different way before we start putting actual valuable data into it, so we
>> don't end up with multiple different ways of doing it in the end...
>
> Hmm. This kind of looks like the right idea, but it's hard to use,
> because all you've got to work with is the subject of the message
> (which is the same for all), the time it was sent, and the author. In
> the old system, you could look at the message in the archives and then
> copy-and-paste in the message ID. That's obviously a bit manual, but
> it worked.
>
> I suppose what would be really spiffy is if the integration of the
> archives and the CF app could be such that you could see the whole
> message and then click "annotate this message".
It would be nice if CF-related emails had a link at the bottom that took
you to that email in the CF app. Another possibility is some kind of
special markup you could add to an email to create an annotation.
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Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting
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