[ZWeb] Re: Notification Use Cases

Ken Manheimer klm@zope.com
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:44:41 -0500 (EST)


Thanks, chris!  I tried to factor this into the goals in my proposal -
particularly the issue of watching the collection indexes...

-- 
Ken
klm@zope.com

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Chris Withers wrote:

> Ken Manheimer wrote:
> >
> > Really, that brings me to the requirements for this little project - what
> > are the goals and specific features we have to have from change
> > monitoring?
>
> This is the crux of it for me. I would say the following:
>
> - I want emails set to me as soon as something changes, including a diff, like
> the CVS notification.
>
> - I want to be able to specify exactly what it is I'm watching, that being a
> single page or a sub-tree of pages...
>
> And, to be honest, that covers it :-)
>
> 'Page'=='URL' for me, maybe something that uses a traversal hook or something
> for the sub-tree stuff?
>
> One of the pages I would be most interest in watching would be the 'current list
> of proposals or projects' page.
> Also, for me, the diff is ultra important. I think it was Mike P who found the
> URL watching site, but they didn't tell you what had changed, which made it next
> to useless...
>
> So, that's my 2p :-)