Bug 7988

Summary: warning on authorized values confusing
Product: Koha Reporter: Nicole C. Engard <nengard>
Component: System AdministrationAssignee: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 - low CC: gmcharlt, katrin.fischer, martin.renvoize, tomascohen, veron
Version: master   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Change sponsored?: --- Patch complexity: String patch
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Attachments: Bug 7988: Make note on authorized values page less confusing
Bug 7988: Make note on authorized values page less confusing
[Passed QA] Bug 7988: Make note on authorized values page less confusing

Description Nicole C. Engard 2012-04-20 12:26:35 UTC
On the authorized values admin page it says:

"NOTE: If you change an authorized value, existing records using it won't be updated."

This is confusing because some people are thinking that this means if you edit the description it won't update the records.  When in reality it means if you change the VALUE it won't update things.

Maybe this could be made clearer by saying:

"NOTE: If you change an authorized value, existing records using it won't be updated. Changes to value descriptions will show immediately"

I'm not sure that's clear either, but I can't come up with another way to make this not confuse people so I'm open to ideas.
Comment 1 Nicole C. Engard 2012-04-20 12:27:51 UTC
How about:

"NOTE: If you change an authorized value code, existing records using it won't be updated. Changes to value descriptions will show immediately."
Comment 2 Katrin Fischer 2014-11-10 10:40:45 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Marc Véron 2014-11-10 17:40:42 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Martin Renvoize 2014-11-12 07:46:16 UTC
Created attachment 33468 [details] [review]
[Passed QA] Bug 7988: Make note on authorized values page less confusing

Nicole suggested a change of the note, that this patch is implementing:

NOTE: If you change an authorized value code, existing records
using it won't be updated. Changes to value descriptions will show
immediately.

To test:
- Go to administration > authorised values
- Check the note showing on the page
- Select a category from the pull down and edit an existing entry
- Check the note on this page is also correct

Patch behaves as expected.
Signed-off-by: Marc Véron <veron@veron.ch>
Signed-off-by: Martin Renvoize <martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com>
Comment 5 Martin Renvoize 2014-11-12 07:46:47 UTC
Trivial patch, passing QA.
Comment 6 Tomás Cohen Arazi 2014-11-14 14:50:18 UTC
Patch pushed to master.

Thanks Katrina!