Comment 25 for bug 743553

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Panagiotis Skintzos (ph7) wrote : Re: [Bug 743553] Re: re-add humidex and/or "feels like" temperature

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> If "Temperature, humidity and wind (Australia)" is too long then it could
> be shortened to "Temp., humidity and wind (Australia)".

The translated texts will also vary in text, but we can't do much about it.
In my native Greek, all columns will be much wider.

> I think that "wind chill" should be in lower case.
>
In which occurrence?

 One last extra bit of possible functionality - perhaps we could have a
> checkbox above the list of fields: "Only show fields when relevant". If
> this option is ticked (as it would be by default?), then Heat Index is
> only displayed in the menu when the temperature is above 27˚C and
> humidity above 40%, wind chill is only shown when the temperature is
> less than 10˚C, and the main "Feels like" is only shown when one of
> these applies. This would mean the user could tick heat index and wind
> chill, and whichever one is relevant would appear in the menu. Also,
> any fields missing from the report would not be shown in the menu rather
> than showing '--' or 'N/A' or whatever the current behaviour is. Do you
> think this would be useful?
>
I think it's a good idea.
Currently '--' is displayed in any case of missing values (caused by errors
or missing data).
Perhaps it's wise to differentiate the MISSING/INVALID and ERROR status.
Then the missing/invalid fields can be filtered out as you suggested (if the
user has selected the option, otherwise displayed as '--').
But the error-ed fields should be shown always (perhaps 'error' is better
than '--'), so that possible bugs can be reported/fixed.

To summarize the statuses:
- Error: Exception in the code while handling the field.
- Missing: Original value is missing (or not provided) from the source
report (like pressure is missing from Google report)
- Invalid: Calculation is invalid (like wind chill above 10˚C)