[Sigia-l] Notification schema?

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"joe" wrote:

> anyone done any work or know of any work done on setting up notifications?

This is (partially) why God created RSS. :-) It's a light-weight "change
notification" system. The emission can be as simple as a single word, a
longer description or even the entire text of the document, plus images.
It's a "pull" system in that a client has to request to see what's changed,
but it'd be trivial to poll often via automation to make it look like a
continuous "push." The specs are currently in flux, but a workable system
can be easily built with what's already here.
 
> how much do executive-level users want this kind of information?

You're prescient asking this question. The exec-level info should be
abstracted as much as possible. But it's again trivial to build a system
that sequentially reveals on demand. First you get just a list of docs that
changed -> click on a title and get a brief description -> click on that to
get a longer description, and so on.

Now, obviously, it all depends on the nature/volume of the material,
frequency of changes, the audience, etc. On a busy system, it'd be easy to
overwhelm the users.

Ziya
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