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Alternative room numbering system #87
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The same with telephone numbers:
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#88 partially addresses the original request (more width for rooms and multiple links if text contains multiple room numbers). This is already activated on the live server. Converting from free text to structured data has advantages and disadvantages. Anyway, the creation of a complex web interface to enter the structured data would take more time than is currently available. So the cheap solution was picked for now. I'm not sure yet, whether we can transfer arbitrary free text data to the telephone number field in the employee editor. Needs to be checked later. |
btw: #88 (already active on life server) also includes a major python & Wagtail update. Watch out of undiscovered problems. |
phone numbers would work, too, but with a limited character set and we'd need to fix a syntax, because we need to expand the phone numbers from internal to external with (030) 8413 prefix. |
Multiple rooms ( "E13 (office purchasing dept.) / K.2.73 (warehouse)") and multiple phone numbers ("1132 (office purchasing dept.) / 1317 (warehouse)") are now correctly exported to the employee-editor. The comment in the phone numbers should be limited to ASCII (no Umlaute!). The software, which is converting from the cms database to ldap trees and which needed to be changed, is not part of this repository. I close this issue now. If a GUI interface to collect annotated list of room numbers and/or phone numbers as "structured data" is still requested, please open a new issue. I probably won't work in it, but it could be reviewed if we engage an external contractor again. |
I can imagine things getting pretty complicated, when comments or additional information is added to the room number field, since string matching would have to know how to discern multiple valid strings from non-matchable ones.
What about having a static table of room numbers (linked to the maps of the building) that the user can select from? Arbitrary strings like "Lager" or "Labor" (existing examples that are also not being translated!) would not be allowed. But a selection of multiple rooms would be possible. At the same time, the system would be less flexible.
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