Alternative idea: When checking if there is an alert message trim the
message. If it empty after trimming then don't actually consider it to
exist.
Then you don't have to worry about existing bad data or edits that
bypass the "don't save all whitespace alert messages" code.
Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
Quoting Ben Shum <[email protected]>:
Hi Jim,
For me, I've seen enough random nonsensical data migrate from our
previous legacy systems into Evergreen to not trust that the data is
meant to make sense from the get-go. We've done quite a bit of data
cleanup in our database post-migrations.
That said, are you suggesting that there ought to be a way for
Evergreen to detect when staff are adding to an alert field only
spaces and prevent the field from being saved? If so, I think
that'd be an interesting new feature to consider.
-- Ben
On 09/07/2012 08:51 AM, Jim Frey wrote:
Not sure if this is a feature request or a bug -- a patron record
was flagged for an alert even though there was no visible alert
text. The 'alert' consisted of 3 spaces which went undetected by
the staff. Deleting the spaces removed the flag.
Evergreen v2.2.1
Jim Frey
Systems & Emerging Technology Librarian
Pioneer Library System
2557 State Rt. 21
Canandaigua, New York 14424
Voice: (585) 394-8260
Fax: (585) 394-1935
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Benjamin Shum
Open Source Software Coordinator
Bibliomation, Inc.
32 Crest Road
Middlebury, CT 06762
203-577-4070, ext. 113
