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Subject:RE: terminology help From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:26:48 -0400
Rosemary...What level are your users? From your explanation, I understood
the relationship and I know NOTHING of your application except what you
explained. Don't sell users short...sometimes they can understand more than
we give them credit.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
-----Original Message-----
From: Rosemary J Horner [mailto:rhorner -at- quellos -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:21 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: terminology help
Hi all,
commented that the words Parent Object and Child Object are too technical to
be used in the interface, but have so far been unable to come up with
suitable alternatives. Now that I'm delving into the details of
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