Enterprise Event Dialog UI Specification

Specification Status
Author	Christian Jansen
Last Change	August 23, 2006
Status	Preliminary

Abstract

This specification covers the UI of the Enterprise Event dialog. This includes the Event dialog itself, the Attendee dialog, the Time Zones dialog, the Reminder dialog and the Recurrence dialog.

References

Test Case Specification

Detailed Specification

The Event dialog window consists of four areas. From top to bottom:

Menu Bar
Tool Bar
Working-Area
Status Bar

Menu Bar

The menu bar provides a set of menu items which are based on the menu structure defined for the Mail Compose window of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.

The menu bar has five menus.

File,
Edit,
View,
Options and
Help.

Menu: File

Item	Sub Item	KBD Shortcut	Properties
New >	Event	Crtl+E	Opens the Event Dialog. Start date has to be set to the current date. Start time has to be on the next full hour. E.g. it is 9:40am the preselcted time has to be 10:00am. Default Event duration has to be 1 hour.
	Message	Ctrl+M
	--------		Separator
	Address Book Card...
Close...		Crtl+W	Case 1 Closes the Event dialog Case 2 If any modifacation where made, an Alert has to occour before closing.
	--------		Separator
Save		Crtl+S	Saves the event. After successful saving the Event Dialog has to stay open. During save, the progress bar (of the Event Dialog) has to display the progress of saving.
Page Setup...			Opens the Thunderbird Page Setup dialog.
Print...		Ctrl+P	Opens the Thunderbird Print dialog.
	--------		Separator
Exit		Ctrl+Q	Exits Thunderbird All unsaved Events have to call an Alert before exiting.

Menu: Edit

Item	Sub Item	KBD Shortcut	Properties
Undo		Crtl+Z	Every change has to be undoable.
Redo		Crtl+Y	Every change has to be redoable.
------------			Separator
Cut		Crtl+X	Applies to all text fields and combo boxes.
Copy		Crtl+C	Applies to all text fields and combo boxes.
Paste		Crtl+V	Applies to all text fields and combo boxes.
------------			Separator
Select All		Crtl+A	Applies to all text fields and combo boxes.

Menu: View

Item	Sub Item	KBD Shortcut	Properties
Toolbars >	Event Toolbar		Default State: Checked
	-------------		Separator
	Customize....		Opens the Mozilla standard "Customize Toolbar" dialog.

Menu: Options

Item	Sub-Item	KBD Shortcut	Properties
Check Spelling...		Ctrl+K	Opens "Check Spelling" dialog
Spell As You Type			Default State: Checked
-----------------
Link to Documents...			Default State: Unchecked Opens "URL" dialog. Expands the Event dialog by the Link to Documents feature.
Timezone...			Default State: Unchecked Displays the Timzome drop down list box in the Event dialog.
-----------------
Importance >
	Low
	Normal		Default State: Selected
	High
-----------------
Show time as >
	Busy		Default State: Selected Includes the event in calculating availability
	Free		Has to be selected automatically, if event has the states "Private" or "All Day"

Menu: Help

Item	Sub Item	KBD Shortcut	Properties
Release Notes			TBD
Thunderbird Help			TBD
----------------
About Thunderbird			TBD

Tool Bar

By default the Event dialog window comes with a toolbar containing six items.

Save and Close
Invite Attendees
Spell
Privacy
Documents
Time Zone

Save and Close

Properties:

Saves the event and closes the Event dialog window

Invite Attendees

Properties: Opens the "Invite Attendee" dialog (LINK).

Spellcheck

Opens the "Check Spelling" dialog (LINK).

If called with focus in Event Title text box, spell check performs on Event Title.
If called with focus in Event Description text box, spell check performs on Event Description.
Other button behaviours conform to standards defined for Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5, or newer.

Calendar:SMB Event Dialog