Presence and Activity Indicators
The CIP application maintains several types of status information so that:
- members may be more aware of the presence and activity of others
- the application will know someone's status in enough detail to provide appropriate support
Guides
Guide documents are maintained for each member in each process (Cafe, Council Circle, etc.) containing a variety of status information, including:
- count of topics created
- count of topics read
- count of responses created
- count of responses joined
and, if meaningful for the process:
- number of topics currently joined
- list of subjects of joined topics
These Guides are replicated to make this information available to others through two views:
- member activity view (sorted by name, displays counts)
- topic members view (categorized by topic subject)
To minimize replication volume, only information of particular value to others is kept in the Guides themselves. All other status information needed by the application is kept locally.
Markers
In local documents called Markers that are not replicated to any other members, the application also maintains lists of the Notes unique document IDs of all:
- topics created
- topics read
- topics joined
- responses created
- responses read
The application uses these lists to know someone's status for each document so it can take appropriate action.
Views
Several special purpose views are maintained to provide current lists and totals of:
- completed profiles
- members who are present/here
- current topics
These views are used by formulas to display counts on the Notice and various Guides.
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