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<div>ah, perhaps I misunderstood your suggestion. Defining incompatible types might be a little tricky, but we could look at alerting someone if a type is being added that isn't commonly found paired with another type.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The first couple items you list are already being worked on. We will take a look at your other ideas too. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Dan</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Arthur van Hoff wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">There should be no confirmation necessary when the type of the selected object matches the type of the property. It is only when you add a new type to an object that a confirmation step can help to avoid mistakes. Here are some improvements that can be made in the UI:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Improve the relevance matching:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">List objects of the appropriate types first.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">List objects that have “compatible” types second. (i.e. /music/actor is compatible with /film/actor since they both include /people/person).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Add a confirmation step when a new “incompatible” type is added to an object.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Provide an easier mechanism to undo changes (i.e. undo everything I did today, undo that last thing I just did, etc..) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I’m not suggesting that we make it harder to enter data, just that we make it harder to make mistakes when entering data.</span></p></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>