id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
362	Support abstracts	dstillman	dstillman	"We never entirely reached a decision on this, though we came close before we were distracted by a bumblebee or something.

Some things I believe we've decided:

  * They should probably be displayed like notes, though possibly with a different icon
  * They need to be editable, since parent items are editable
  * There's not a great place in the interface to let users add them

Also note [http://chnm.grouphub.com/projects/310105/msg/cat/2114872/3235431/comments Simon's BC post].

One option would be to have them essentially be notes, stored, displayed and edited in the same way, and have a ""Set as abstract"" context menu option to designate/switch user-created notes as the item's abstract and set a custom icon. (It'd be a little cleaner in terms of data structure to have them in itemData, since most notes won't be abstracts, but it's probably worth the extra bit or whatever per non-abstract note row to not add the extra code to support that.)"	enhancement	closed	major	1.0 Beta 3	interface	1.0	fixed		dcohen simon