Thank you, Adam.

On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 8:54:47 PM UTC+2, Adam Cox wrote:
>
> Hi Lucy, just looking back through this, and regarding point 2:
>
> You're completely right, it would be nice to have coordinates on the 
> location form map, just like already exists in the map view.  It requires a 
> bit of editing to the location.htm form itself as well as the location.js 
> file, but shouldn't be too difficult for someone with the proper skills 
> (they could inspect the map.htm and map.js files to see how the coordinate 
> display is implemented there).
>
> Because this has come up a couple of times--as well as the related (but 
> functionally very different) concept of creating geometry by hand-typing 
> lat/long coordinates--I've added two issues to the bit bucket repo (here 
> <https://bitbucket.org/arches/arches3/issues/296/crud-location-add-coordinates-display-to>
>  
> and here 
> <https://bitbucket.org/arches/arches3/issues/296/crud-location-add-coordinates-display-to>)
>  
> so that they are at least in the queue...
>
> On Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 5:24:11 AM UTC-6, Lucy FJ wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 1. I would like to report a possible error in the Resources data manager, 
>> heritage resource input form, Site summary section:
>>
>> Firstly, when you input the resource name you have to enter the primary 
>> name first and then other names in that order for the primary name to be 
>> used as the name of the resource and for the primary name  to appear on the 
>> map. Is this correct? I believe in older versions of Arches, the primary 
>> name had a special meaning and would be always be used as the name of the 
>> resource. 
>> Secondly, if you forget to enter the names in this order and try later to 
>> edit the resource to correct it, you must delete the resource and start 
>> again, it is not possible to simply delete the names and input again 
>> putting the primary one first. This does seem to make sense as I can see 
>> that the resource name would be difficult to simply amend. Is this how 
>> Arches is supposed to work? 
>>
>> 2. Location:  when inputting the location, by adding geometry to the map, 
>> it is not possible to view the longitude/latitude  so it is impossible to 
>> locate a place correctly. I realize that most users will enter the 
>> coordinates in batch mode or by using the .gpx file but it might be useful 
>> to have that information there.  
>>
>> 3. Description:the text box for inputting the description only appears if 
>> I have set up 3 description types, these can be any, I believe. We only 
>> need one type, and it seems strange that you need to put in three. Also, 
>> when I copy the text from an Excel file, it is not possible to reformat the 
>> text, so it appears just as it is in the file, a narrow, long entry. 
>>
>>
>> Thank you, Lucy
>>
>

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