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Comment	>> IMO, it would be confusing for a typical user to just see a list of > >> "containers" that they have access to, yet in different areas of > >> Turba some of those lists would be there, and other times they > >> wouldn't be. If you don't differentiate them to the user, he/she > >> would have no way of knowing why sometimes the "Building A" list is > >> displayed and sometimes it's not. Your also leaving it up to the > >> user to remember on their own which lists are the "virtuals" that > >> they created... > > > > I cringe at the word "virtual", but thats just from a long history of > seeing it overused :) The need to somehow differentiate or > categorize different elements has become apparent. I have a bit of a > photographic memory, so I probably wouldn't forget which are the > "virtuals" but thats probably not to be expected of a typical user. > I concede the point. > > > > There are a couple of edge cases where the UI (or at least the behind > the scenes code) does provide the kind of problem you described - for > instance, if your first address book is not browseable, and you > choose Browse, Turba will try to load that and will error with a > message that its not browseable, but will happily return a list of > browseable address book in the upper right hand corner. Better to > only try browsing browseable address books, instead of trying to > browse a non-browseable one, returning an error a few seconds later, > and providing a menu of browseables from. I'll try to catalog these > in the next few days.
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