ANNOUNCEMENT: Workgroups For All

[Gary Lewis]

As an experiment I've turn workgroups on so that everyone can use them.  Let's see how it goes and we may want to change that.

Anyway, here's how it works:

You are in a thread and see a post that you think Joe Blow should see.

You look right above the Post Message button and you see a dropdown that will either say Unassigned or Assigned.  If Unassigned you want to make it Assigned.  If already Assigned then go to the next step.

Once you've made it Assigned you'll see another dropdown that will either show the current assignee or the member at the top of the member's list, which is currently '84-460-Project.  Click that dropdown and use the slider on the right to scroll down and select the member you want to tag.

Next to that dropdown is an "at priority" dropdown.  I suggest we leave it at "3. Normal", but you can do whatever you want as it really won't matter.

After adding some words in the "Reply" field click Post Message.  Joe Blow will get an email just as if he is subscribed to that thread, but at the bottom it'll say something about him having been assigned or tagged, and a link that will take him to your post.

Now for a few other things.  At the moment the Assignee and the Priority show at the top of the thread.  That's just FYI and I'll probably take that away.  And, if someone has already been assigned/tagged, his/her screen name will show in the middle dropdown.  If you change that to someone else and hit Post Message then that someone will now be the assignee and will get the email.

I hope to be tweaking this feature to make it more tag-like where tagging someone just generates the email but nothing else.  And, I'll be playing with the other aspects to clean it up.  But give it a try and let me know what you think.

[kramttocs]

Nice work Gary. Looking forward to seeing how this works for everyone.

[Gary Lewis]

Thanks, Scott.  I hope we (I?) can tune it to be exactly what we want.  But I'd like everyone's input regarding what they see.  

[Gary's New Test Name]

Scott has asked questions about who gets subscribed, so I'm testing this concept by logging on with the "Gary's New Test Name", which isn't subscribed to anything, and posting to this thread.  And I'm tagging Scott so he can come here and post, which should then send me an email - answering some questions.

[kramttocs]

Replying. "Gary's New Test Name" is populated in the dropdown. I didn't change it.

[Gary's New Test Name]

Thanks, Scott.  I got the email notification that I'd been tagged.  But, what I don't know for sure is if I'd get an email if I wasn't tagged.  So please un-assign me and respond again.

[kramttocs]

Unassigned

[Gary Lewis]

And I didn't an email on the test user account.  So just posting doesn't subscribe you to that thread.  I don't like that, at all.  

[kramttocs]

I'd say a lot of us are in the habit of just checking the Alert checkbox the first time we reply to a thread