Continued Design Discussions and Wrap Up

Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008

Description

Discussion of Network and Attribute Model

Trey's "five minutes"
- tweak #1 - every node should have a unique ID per session (NID)
- tweak #2 - attributes should have unique IDs as well (AID); each NID is associated with a set of AIDs; related nodes may share many attributes; where data is shared, references are used

each loaded node has a unique ID (NID)
a unique binding table of NIDs <-> Names exists per network
data is loaded as one or more worksheets, keyed by node Name
when you load a worksheet, you have to specify which (if any) networks to apply the data (default = currentNetwork)
when you load a network, you have to specify which (if any) worksheets you want to apply (default = all?)
as a UI point, you could also preselect networks (or worksheets) prior to loading worksheets (or networks) to indicate binding
when a worksheet is applied to one or more networks, a reference is placed in the network binding table to the worksheet cell
data table cells should be able to reference other cells, networks, vizmap properties; cells could contain formulas as well