[Babase] Important update to Ranker Tweaking
Jun Yang
junyang at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 13:34:29 EDT 2008
I've added a confirmation before any saving to Babase is done. Please
check it out.
--- Jun Y.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Jun Yang <junyang at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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