Re: [Gnumed-devel] bug report: Office menu > Edit document type ... no way to save edits

[James Busser]

On 22-Jan-08, at 12:35 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:24:15AM -0800, James Busser wrote:
>
> > Also in this widget, what effect does deleting a type have on any  
> > documents
> > that had been added to the archive and which had been assigned the  
> > type
> > that is now deleted?
>
> You can't.

AKA relational integrity, yes? :-)

Instead of deleting a type, it would make more sense to either rename  
it if that would give a more meaningful name, (I imagine that could  
easily enough be done) and if it is later useful to do, to implement  
a widget that could merge (subsume) one type into another.