Preventing duplicate memos #83
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When the user creates a memo, the page checks whether the proposed name exists in the diary. If it is the case, the creation is interrupted and the user prompted that a memo with the requested name already exists. This commit also includes the following feature : * Prompting the user when username and password do not match.
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This feature could be improved by checking for existing memos before the user hits the Maybe the dialog prompt could provide a button allowing to grounds the current memo in the existing memo. Such a feature would require to check that the type of the existing memo matches the type of memo that the user is attempting to create. |
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Up to now, if the user tried to create a memo with a name that already existed in the diary, he was prompted (though a dialog box) that a memo with that name already exists. From now on, the platform suggests to ground the existing memo in the current one (through a one-click operation). The user is simply prompted (with no suggestion) if the grounding link already exists.
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When the user fills the add/create input field, a list of existing memos is suggested (as #83 proposed), allowing to add the current memo among the groundings of the selected memo. If the user requests an already existing grounding, s/he is prompted that it already exists. If the memo is already grounded, but on a different fragment/paragraph, the grounding is quietly updated. This feature can contribute to smoother coding sessions, as @benel indicates (#112). That's why it is reserved to field memos and transcripts at this stage.
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When the user creates a memo, the software should check that the proposed name does not exist yet. If it is the case, the creation should be interrupted and the user prompted that a memo with the requested name already exists.
Such a feature is preferable to a drop down menu suggesting an existing name when the user is typing the name of the memo to be created. Indeed, proposing to create a link with an existing memo may suggest that repetition is not a problem (or, even, may be interpreted as a encouragement to re-use existing memos rather than creating a new one). The design of the UI should of course discourage such (wrong) interpretations.
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