This is a proposal for a number of design criteria which will allow us to more tightly integrate data between applications and refer to it and link between applications. It's late and I'm tired, so I hope the following makes sense. -- JasonFelice
This might be part of the Horde_Links:: API, but we would be able to query an application for a heirarchy of objects (probably not all at once, of course). An object would be a turba entry or a kronolith event or a wicked page or a whups ticket, etc.
This will allows us to provide a popup window the user can use to browse to a particular object easily.
Another possibility would be a "clip area" in the menu or the sidebar. When viewing an object, there will be an icon to send it to the clip area and an icon will appear there.
-- JasonFelice
Event descriptions, comments in whups, description fields in turba, task descriptions in nag would all recognize a simple type of markup for indicating links to other objects, and these will appear as hypertext links to those objects.
If we use the clip area idea, then we would code a little javascript to allow drag-and-drop onto these edit fields to insert references. Otherwise, we'd have an icon that pops up a window we can browse to the right object and click on the object to insert a reference in the current field.
-- JasonFelice
The inspiration here is that I would like wicked pages bound to turba objects. I'd like both a turba entry for a contact or client, and a wiki page to keep track of notes, link to projects, etc. I'm not sure how this would work, exactly.
-- JasonFelice
Wiki pages have a name, a title (which is always the same as the name in wiki-land), and content. This is basically the same as any of the "objects" we're talking about here. I'm thinking that different applications provide the ability to manipulate different kinds of objects, but we still need a good deal of generic objects, which are generic wiki pages. I guess the goal of this API is to make all the other applications act like they are "specializations" of wiki pages.
-- JasonFelice