BUG: Pedantic comments on Breeding Blogs...

[MatsP]

1. When adding food in a blog, all other entered data "disappears".
2. Egg size - I think tenths of millimeters may be needed, as most eggs would be in the lower single digit range, and some smaller than 1mm. Would it be possible to make it a floating point number? (Or store it as tenths of millimeters)

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Mats

[MatsP]

Any chance of being able to see the blogs next to the posts for each person?

And a list option on the "my cats" page?

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Mats

[Jools]

Any chance of being able to see the blogs next to the posts for each person?

Yes, it's in the plan.

And a list option on the "my cats" page?

Yes, or wouldn't a "My blog" list off of the link above be better as it wouldn't show multiple same blog for multiple populations of the same species?

Jools

[Jools]

1. When adding food in a blog, all other entered data "disappears".

That's a bug, will get on to it pronto.

2. Egg size - I think tenths of millimeters may be needed, as most eggs would be in the lower single digit range, and some smaller than 1mm. Would it be possible to make it a floating point number? (Or store it as tenths of millimeters)

Can you really tell the difference between .2mm and .8mm? I'd be inclined to leave it.

Jools

[MatsP]

Measuring eggs: I can tell the difference between 1mm, 1.5 and 2, and 2.5mm, for certain. If people enter 1, 2, 3 mm anyways, so be it.

I'm not sure what's wrong with me these days. I meant to say "a list option off the Cat-eLog page" for "all 'my blogs'".

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mats

[Jools]

1. When adding food in a blog, all other entered data "disappears".

That's a bug, will get on to it pronto.

This is a really nasty one. When a drop down selection event reloads the page, I do not know how (even if it is possible) to capture the data entered ahead of the submit event. So, my design using one active dropdown and an AJAX box seems to be a bad one. This fault also exists for the food data in My Aquaria.

The work around for "My Blog" is get the foods right in My Aquaria, but that's pretty lame.

I need to do some research and I might be able to redesign it to be simpler anyway (e.g. just an AJAX box with options like (bloodworm (frozen), flake (prepared), bloodworm(live) and so on).

Leave it with me, this is priority.

Jools

[MatsP]

Sounds rather difficult... Let me know if you want to bounce ideas...

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Mats

[Jools]

Well, there goes 4 hours of research. Turns out it is nearly impossible and totally impractical, which might explain why no other site does it if you think about it. The issue, in essence, is where is the user's input data. The session data is where it's stored and that's all server side. The user input is all client side so is lost when the page refreshes. Javascript is client side, so can't get the data server side in any kind of sensible way. So, the dropdown that reloads the page with URL parameters has to go and I need to rewrite the AJAX function. Learning is good.

The reason this never came to light in my testing was I didn't storyboard that someone would add new foods when entering a blog. Just didn't occur to me. However, as is now obvious, if they can, they will!

On the plus side, it will be easier to use.

Jools

[MatsP]

However, as is now obvious, if they can, they will!

Generally accepted fact in software development: If you CAN do something, SOME (strange) user WILL do this!

I actually wasn't even trying to break it on purpose - I just realized that I would need to add food (which by the way, I would like to do multiple sets of food in one go!).

Perhaps have a separate page/menu for manipulating feeding (same source for both blog and aquarium feeding regime)?

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Mats

[Jools]

The fix for this means that you could actually add more foods in one go. But that will have to wait. By all means whack that in as an ENHANCE: thread. It will not happen soon.

Jools

[Jools]

Egg sized changed so you can have 1.3mm. Does that close this resolve this thread?

Jools

[MatsP]

Have you fixed the feeding problems? Or is there another bug for those?

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Mats

[Jools]

If the problem is "all data disappears", then yes. If another problem, I'd be keen to see it in another thread. It's easier for me to track on issue per thread...

Jools

[MatsP]

If the problem is "all data disappears", then yes. If another problem, I'd be keen to see it in another thread. It's easier for me to track on issue per thread...

Jools

Sure, I understand - just a bit scatterminded at times and get sidetracked... ;)

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Mats

[MatsP]

Seems to be fixed...

Got some new bugs, tho'.

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Mats

[Jools]

OK, I will move this to resolved and can you post new threads for the new BUGS:

Cheers,

Jools