[Koha-devel] Serial: numbering patterns: how to make it more clear that months and weekdays start from 0 ?

[Katrin Fischer]

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,
>