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-Ticket 89
-Queue: Kronolith
-Added By: Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>

-Summary:
Categories bound to user, not calendar

Comment by Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org> on Mon May 17 14:02:37 2004
(today):
Planned solution:

> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>
>> What I'm leaning towards now is changing all of our apps that use this
code to
>> simply accept text labels for events (probably giving up on the dropdown
list,
>> though we can just store a list of labels on a per-user basis, too),
instead of
>> storing a number in the backend.
>
> Jan and I came up with the following on IRC:
>
> - we'll store categories as text in the event/task/etc. records
> - users will have a list of categories (global to all of Horde) in their
> prefernces.
> - shares will also have a list of categories, which comprises the list of
all
> categories assigned to objects in that share.
> - users personal lists will be updated with any categories assigned to
shares
> they access, to allow them to set colors on them.

And vice versa. As soon as a user assigns a label from his personal list to
a shared object, this label will be added to the share's labels. (Of
course, otherwise other users won't see this label ;-))

>> Then, we can maintain colors on a per-user basis, and just keep those in
prefs, so
>> that each user has their own color scheme completely independant of other
users, even
>> for viewing the same calendar.
>
> This will stay the same - colors would be completely personal.
>
> If we agree on this, my first step will be to update apps to store
> categories as
> text, instead of numbers.


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