#24 Resource list Favorites

[Christopher Watkins]

It would be nice to track a users favorite resources. If
a user normally only uses 5 of the 17 available
resources, an extra item in the resource list next to "all"
could be called "favorites". Clicking on this would access
a cookie and display a subset of resources that they
have designated as their favorites.

My first thought about the mechanism for designating
favorites is through a link on the user's utility menu. It
could offer a list of all resources, and a checkbox to
indicate favorites. This might be less messy than trying
to add a checkbox to the main calendar control panel.

This could be implemented two ways. The first option
would be to add a "favorites" field very similiar to the
binary "resource permissions" field where a "1" would
indicate a resource favorite. The second method would
be to store the information in a cookie. This way, the
default calendar view could show their favorites (even
before they log on). However this could potentially
confuse the user as to the available resources, as well
as slow down the page load (I like the default load to
only inlclude one resources...especially for the dial-up
users). Option #1 is probably the best option, but I
thought I would throw out #2 for kicks and grins.