Re: [Gnumed-devel] automatic episode namin

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:51:54AM +1000, Richard wrote:

> > Yes and no. As far as I am concerned I think we will enforce
> > episode linkage in the database. However, I acknowledge that
> > anyone is free to write a frontend that uses dummy episode
> > names without even bothering the user about it as you
> > suggest.
> Great - ie you won't do it whilst you are there, when you are the one who is 
> implementing the logic.
Precisely. However, in the current HEAD code the user never
ever has to enter an episode name - they are auto-generated
(albeit the machine tries to make sense of the information
it has instead of right-out admitting it doesn't have a clue
;-). The user can happily ignore them. What I meant was that
anyone is free to write a frontend which auto-generates
(meaningless ?) episode names/health issue names -- and
does not even *display* them so the user is not unduly
bothered by wondering whether they might at the end of the
day actually provide some benefit would she care to make use
of them ... (I know I'm being devious here)

 Surely you can compromise on this and just include 
> the code and put in a flag that can be set for those not wanting to have to 
> name an episode
I could but given the current code (eg auto-naming) I fail
to see the merit. If you demonstrate the need against the
current code - fine - I'll put in the flag.

> eg at first ever save in the dialogic box have something liek
> 
> Please enter episode name  OK, Cancel, with a checkbox saying 'generate 
> automatic episode name and don't ask me any more'.
Never fear, I have just these days asked Carlos to write a
generic message box class with this checkbox facility and he
agreed to work on it ... :-)

If so (see above) - yes, we'll use that message box with
checkbox to set the config option, good idea.

Karsten
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