Add 'Date of Planting' option in Plant Editor?
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Bauble |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Mario Frasca | ||
1.1 |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In scenario where I have some plants with minimal or no propagation detail (e.g. donated, bought at community markets, fell of back of a truck etc), recording propagation info for one or more batches (plant entries) is somewhat unnecessary, except for using one of the date fields to note planting date. This field is available under the 'seed' propagation option, but do I want to add a mostly-blank entry for 'seed' just to have the planting date recorded? I may not even know if the plants were grown from seed to start with, so I'd be cheating in some ways.
Maybe an alternative for ease-of-use would be for planting date to be one of the options on the general tab, under 'quantity' and 'location'... ? It seems to me the better place to view/edit such info. The 'date planted' field in the propagations tab might be better used for noting 'date the seedling was potted up' etc, given it is with germination data.
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Agreed, a "Date Planted" field should really be there already. Unfortunately it would require a schema change which would have to wait for a 1.1 series.
The initial date the Plant is given a location is record as a PlantChange which somewhat indicates the date it was planted there. I could also include a "Date Planted" in plant_change.reason as a temporary fix.