Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-02 Thread Diego Boscá
Is much different to change the field from 'test result:positive/negative' to 'test result positive:true/false'? If the semantics if not the same then the 'positive/negative' has more meaning that a simple boolean and I think they should be coded 2011/2/2 Koray Atalag k.atalag at auckland.ac.nz:

Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-02 Thread Erik Sundvall
Hi! Good points from both of you, I just want to add a thought. When designing or locally adapting GUIs I think it can be valuable to have the option to use radio-buttons (or widgets with similar visibility and semantics) also for DV_CODED_TEXT items if you know that the number of options are

Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-02 Thread Koray Atalag
Hi Diego, thanks for your points... I agree that changing data item to 'Test X result Positive: True|False' is the right way to use Boolean data type...But while this is an elegant technical approach it has problems in two ways (in my opinion): 1) From modelling point of view the non-techy

Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-02 Thread Fabiane Bizinella Nardon
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Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-02 Thread Diego Boscá
That seems a clear 'null flavour' use case 2011/2/2 Fabiane Bizinella Nardon fabiane at tridedalo.com.br: I came across this problem several times. It became almost impossible to use DV_BOOLEAN. The worst problem is that since DV_BOOLEAN has to be always true or false, if someone simply does

Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-02 Thread Thomas Beale
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Representing binary values with DV_BOOLEAN

2011-02-02 Thread pablo pazos
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2011-02-02 Thread Thomas Beale
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