[Babase] Important update to Ranker Tweaking

Jun Yang junyang at gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 20:41:27 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Lacey Maryott <lacey.maryott at duke.edu> wrote:
>
> A potentially bigger problem, that I discovered the hard way today, is that
> there is no 'stupid box' when you (accidentally) click on save ranking to
> babase, to ask you if you are absolutely positively sure you would like to
> save the ranking. I accidentally clicked on it and my ranking got saved. It
> isn't terrible to fix, but just means more mussing in the data that could
> lead to accidental deletions, etc. How hard is it to incorporate a pop-up
> asking if we are ABSOLUTELY sure we want to save before saving rankings to
> babase?

Adding a confirmation is easy.

> Tabby suggested maybe even moving the 'save' prompt to its own drop-down if
> this is easier.

This is easy too. I like adding a confirmation better though.

> Alternatively, being able to save to babase-test would eliminate the
> problem, as we know that test is for messing up things. For some reason, it
> isn't letting us use test right now.

When you first connect to babase through ranker (in its welcome
screen), you can select babase-test and then all reads and writes will
go to babase-test instead of babase. Alternatively, you can also save
the ranking to a file (on your computer), load it, and then then later
save to a database.

--- Jun Y.


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