branch closed text/layout confusing
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Canon Lore |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
from a january 2008 wishlist of teffania the brand new canon herald:
*Something that makes it clearer that a branch is closed or in permanent abeyance (colleges). The “became” is not very clear. Perhaps a field for branch closed, which shows up on the website as something like “branch closed May 2006, became part of Stormhold”. The date field could not be a simple date field of dd/mm/yyyy, but would have to have some flexibility for answers such as “before 2004″, “may 2006″, etc.
Eftb's response in Jan 2008:
* Branch status improvements: will require a little fiddling, and may not be as flexible as that, but I can improve on the status quo. Priority 2/5 Difficulty 3/5.
Current status:
*YES, I'd still like this. I still get confused people ocasionally.
It would also be cool if this screen could tag groups on this list:
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as "the former ..." as appropriate eg "the former shire of Llyn Arian"
Changed in canonlore: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
We probably need to bite the bullet and add a field to the canon_branch table, like "branch_status enum ('incipient', 'active', 'closed') NULL", and then make suitable adjustments to Gratian and CL to use it. I didn't do that because I thought it would be OK provided we had proper dates, but that's harder than I thought.