I just closed this as wontfix; i.e. I think Nathan's suggestions are as good as it gets.
Does anybody see a better path forward? -- Dan ________________________________________ From: GPC Informatics [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 8:14 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; Dan Connolly Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gpc-informatics] #95: LOINC metadata hierarchy depth/count issues #95: LOINC metadata hierarchy depth/count issues -----------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: huhickman | Owner: nathan.wilson Type: problem | Status: assigned Priority: major | Milestone: data-stds-plan Component: data-stds | Resolution: Keywords: | Blocked By: 68 Blocking: | -----------------------+----------------------------- Comment (by nathan.wilson): I would not attempt to manipulate or alter the hierarchy in any manner. I concur with Dan that this is a usability issue and therefor is not critical to data standardization and interoperability. That being said, I do have a couple of ideas to help resolve this issue, but none are really that good. 1. It is quite possible that when each site trims their trees to match their data then this issue will go away. Enough children may be hidden that this particular node will display without incident. Doesn't solve the display issue for babel however. 2. It may be possible to set the default children to display to a ridiculously high number like 10,000. This should then eliminate the need to try and guess how many children exist for a large node. Large nodes may still take a while to render, but it should eliminate the guesswork. 3. Since you are looking in the LOINC Class section of the terminology you are looking at categorical groupings so you will get these larger nodes which aren't necessarily designed for browsing purposes. Therefore don't use LOINC Class for browsing. This is possibly the worst solution. -- Ticket URL: <http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/trac/Project/ticket/95#comment:2> gpc-informatics <http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/> Greater Plains Network - Informatics _______________________________________________ Gpc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.kumc.edu/mailman/listinfo/gpc-dev
