[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Alert flag appears with no alert

[Thomas Berezansky]

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 <bshum at biblio.org>:

> 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
>>
>
> -- 
> Benjamin Shum
> Open Source Software Coordinator
> Bibliomation, Inc.
> 32 Crest Road
> Middlebury, CT 06762
> 203-577-4070, ext. 113
>
>