optimising the selection of alternatives in remember templates

optimising the selection of alternatives in remember templates

[Rainer Stengele]

Imagine using remember to write down a note about a telephone call.
These days I have a remember template with the most possible customers 
company name, the most possible customer names and then subjects and the 
"types".

This adds up to a lot of alternatives in the template.
For choosing the correct one I have to switch through a lot of 
alternatives which are uninteresting as soon as I have chosen the first 
alternative, here the company name.

I find the remember templates are an awesome feature!
They could be optimised in terms of usability if I could define the 
alternatives hierarchically like for example


(company1 - ((customer name1|customer name2|customer name3)
  	     (project name1|project name2|project name3)
	     (incident type1|incident type2|incident type3|)))
(company2 - ((customer name4|customer name5|customer name6)
  	     (project name1|project name4|project name4)
	     (incident type1|incident type3|incident type4|)))
...

This would help speeding up the selection of the correct alternatives in 
a remember template depending on the selection first made while a 
customer is just beginnning to talk on the phone.

I hope this was clear enough.


Rainer

Re: optimising the selection of alternatives in remember templates

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Rainer,

I am not sure how this is supposed to work in a practical way.  Are  
these for filling in 3 different places in a tempate, or just one?  In  
the latter case, how about setting up a syntax
    company1/customer name1|company1/customer name2 .... | company2/ 
customer name4...


and then just using completion to go throough from company to name?

- Carsten

On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:13 AM, Rainer Stengele wrote:

> Imagine using remember to write down a note about a telephone call.
> These days I have a remember template with the most possible  
> customers company name, the most possible customer names and then  
> subjects and the "types".
>
> This adds up to a lot of alternatives in the template.
> For choosing the correct one I have to switch through a lot of  
> alternatives which are uninteresting as soon as I have chosen the  
> first alternative, here the company name.
>
> I find the remember templates are an awesome feature!
> They could be optimised in terms of usability if I could define the  
> alternatives hierarchically like for example
>
>
> (company1 - ((customer name1|customer name2|customer name3)
> 	     (project name1|project name2|project name3)
> 	     (incident type1|incident type2|incident type3|)))
> (company2 - ((customer name4|customer name5|customer name6)
> 	     (project name1|project name4|project name4)
> 	     (incident type1|incident type3|incident type4|)))
> ...
>
> This would help speeding up the selection of the correct  
> alternatives in a remember template depending on the selection first  
> made while a customer is just beginnning to talk on the phone.
>
> I hope this was clear enough.
>
>
> Rainer
>
>
>
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