Serial: numbering patterns: how to make it more clear that months and weekdays start from 0 ?
Hi :) , That might not be clear, even for developer, and even less for a librarian. How could this info be delivered reliably to the user? To avoid running in circle during too long before realizing that? Even more hard to understand when there are cases like biannual where if you start from February, it will work even if you assumed that January was 1. But if you start from February, there will be issues after one year. Should there be tooltips? The related fields are marked with a red dot in the following screenshot. https://framapic.org/4P2ZzbgJpuvA/SIleKzEuYVaG.png Cheers, -- Victor Grousset, dev support/maintenance BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Libre/Open Source software and services for libraries
Hi Victor, sorry for the late reply :) Ideally I think we should have 'fixed' it to not start with 0 but 1 when the feature was introduced, because it's counter intuitive to non-developers right now. But as the feature has existed like this for so long, I am not sure we should change it now, especially since we would have to update all existing patterns. Maybe we could show a tooltip depending on the value selected in Formatting? Can you explain the problem with biannual? Is there a bug? Katrin On 20.02.19 15:38, Victor Grousset wrote:
Hi :) ,
That might not be clear, even for developer, and even less for a librarian. How could this info be delivered reliably to the user? To avoid running in circle during too long before realizing that? Even more hard to understand when there are cases like biannual where if you start from February, it will work even if you assumed that January was 1. But if you start from February, there will be issues after one year.
Should there be tooltips? The related fields are marked with a red dot in the following screenshot.
https://framapic.org/4P2ZzbgJpuvA/SIleKzEuYVaG.png
Cheers,
Le 14/04/2019 à 15:04, Katrin Fischer a écrit :
Hi Victor,
sorry for the late reply :) Ideally I think we should have 'fixed' it to not start with 0 but 1 when the feature was introduced, because it's counter intuitive to non-developers right now. But as the feature has existed like this for so long, I am not sure we should change it now, especially since we would have to update all existing patterns.
Maybe we could show a tooltip depending on the value selected in Formatting?
Can you explain the problem with biannual? Is there a bug? Not a real bug but its counter intuitive that 0=january and 13 also. So numbering patterns may work by chance ^^.
Katrin
On 20.02.19 15:38, Victor Grousset wrote:
Hi :) ,
That might not be clear, even for developer, and even less for a librarian. How could this info be delivered reliably to the user? To avoid running in circle during too long before realizing that? Even more hard to understand when there are cases like biannual where if you start from February, it will work even if you assumed that January was 1. But if you start from February, there will be issues after one year.
Should there be tooltips? The related fields are marked with a red dot in the following screenshot.
https://framapic.org/4P2ZzbgJpuvA/SIleKzEuYVaG.png
Cheers,
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