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Identify all strategic choices
Strategic choices include user interaction with the system in order to
accomplish a specific task. These can be treated as landmarks.[17]
Strategic choices might include overview requests (displays of summary
nodes), structural and content query facilities, navigation mechanisms,
editing tools, display options, audit trail mechanisms, linearization techniques, and
backtracking facilities. The inherent nature of hypertext
is that there is really no need for strategic choices. Any node or link in the entire
network can be a strategic choice. In a true hypertext system each node
should be self sufficient and complete. Also, the set of strategic choices
need not be the same every time the user interacts with the system. For
example, the user can directly access required nodes through query mechanisms.
This feature must be available even without traversing the network. Hence, a
query facility can be considered as a strategic choice. Strategic choices can
also include an overview diagram of the template (its contents and links), the
ability to find out from which master template a duplicate was created, the
ability to edit the master template etc.
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