Hi Andy, Burke, Roger, Ben, etc, Wyclif wants to finish off the work on concept mappings for 1.9. One specific point of discussion was about whether or not you're allowed to create new terms just by entering them as mappings in the edit concept page. Originally Wyclif implemented it such that you could, then we asked him to remove that feature. Then we asked him to put it back. I want to make sure we all clearly agree on an approach.
See the screenshot on https://tickets.openmrs.org/browse/TRUNK-412. This shows the page as it stands now. The idea is that if you haven't chosen a Source from the dropdown, then the text box after it will autosuggest possibilities from all terminologies in the DB. Whereas if you choose a source, it searches just terms in that source. My further proposal is that *if* you have explicitly chosen a terminology, and you type in a term that doesn't exist yet in that terminology, it gets created on the fly (when the page is saved). That will be much easier for the end-user than having to flip to a Manage Terminology page and add the term there, before being able to map to it. And since the user will already have chosen a terminology from the source dropdown, it'll cut down on accidentally creating terms. The further point is that the term table has both a code *and* a name. I would say that when creating a term on-the-fly in this manner, we should create a term with just code, but leave the name blank. (It seems awkward to add name into the UI.) Also, apparently someone had previously given Wyclif a To Do that both code and name should be required for terms, and when migrating current data with only codes, we should just copy the code into the name column. This seems wrong to me--I'd argue that if we don't know the name we should just leave it null, and not require it. (That said, we can still follow my proposed approach and copy the code the user enters for the term to create on-the-fly into name. Or, for a tougher-to-program and probably more confusing UI, we could make it such that if you type a new code that doesn't match anything in the autosuggest, we display a new Name field.) Quick thoughts? -Darius _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l]
