Re: Cloning (not sheep) and other features...

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Outliners.com Message ID: 192

Posted by nubuckaroo
1999-08-20 19:07:22

Would this be cool? Use Publish and Subscribe - create separate outlines for individual departments/personnel - have a publisher set up for each of the corresponding departments in a master outline. The individual outlines would have a topic which subscribes to their topic(s) in the master. I think Acta supports Publish and Subscribe, but it doesn’t support cloning, so it’s a bit limited, but you could have a common topic in the master outline which each of the subordinate outlines subscribes to, in addition to their particular topic, that would go some way toward replicating some of the functionality of cloning for this purpose.

So you might have something like this: (ARGH it’s tough to format text in this!)

Big Organization Inc. Master Plan

+ Common Data (published to Common Data topic in all)

>>+ Calendar

>>+ Resource availability (meeting rooms, etc)

>>+ General Information (strategic plan, mission, vision, etc)

+ Departmental Data

>>+ Accounting

>>>>+ Action items (published to Accounting’s outline)

>>>>+ Reports (subscribed from Accouting’s outline)

>>+ Personnel

>>>>+ Action Items (same as above)

>>>>- Reports (you get the idea)

Now, for common data, you could argue that one could use a single outline and let everyone have access to it over the network. Maybe that’s a better way. I’m just thinking out loud here. I know I’m not happy with Outlook’s use of calendars as resource schedulers.

You might be able to replicate and improve upon some of the Outlook Today functionality by having a script create a document (any document that supports P&S) which subscribes to particular topics for a given day or priority. I’m suggesting you could format the data for viewing in a manner different than the outliner offers, but maintain the integrity of the outline’s structure.

Again, I’m just thinking out loud. Time to go and play.

Would like to see drag and drop editing supported in comment (document) windows. Cut/Copy/Paste works, but drag and drop is too convenient and I miss it when I can’t use it.

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