schooltool-developers team mailing list archive

[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:44 AM, tejashree bhanawala
<tejashree.bhanawala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1.
>
>      Thank you for the clarification. I have some more doubts listing them
> below
>
>       Why no delete option on grading system and term page? If someone
> enters something random to see the effect and later wants to get rid of the
> entry he cannot delete it

These are data integrity issues.  If a term that has had sections
assigned to it is deleted, what should happen?  Should all the
sections disappear?  Should they remain but not be associated with a
term?  Perhaps we should allow the user to reduce the length of a term
to 0 days.

Score systems can be hidden from the individual score system view.
They cannot be deleted entirely because again, you may have years of
data based on the score system.  If it is deleted, how does the system
know the value of those scores?

> 2.       There should be check box to select students for a particular
> section(current system is time consuming) as in the previous version. Also
> once I execute filter, I get list of students. These students could be added
> one by one in any section. But after selecting one student the filter
> refreshes itself forces me to select filter for each and every student.

Yes, we are re-writing that view right now to do the add/delete
dynamically without a page reload.  We will release that ASAP.

> 3.       Currently there is no option to edit timetable. One has to go
> through the entire process to edit even one field

Again, this is a data integrity issue.  Changing timetables in place
with assigned and scheduled sections would be very complicated and
unlikely to meet user expectations (e.g., should this be possible for
only dates that have already passed, or work retroactively?).  Trying
to determine which timetables are safe to change and which aren't
would be complicated and probably confusing.

In practical terms, we have to decide whether or not it is worth
spending time on adding functionality or making the initial process of
experimenting with SchoolTool easier.  Maybe we need to more strongly
encourage people to experiment on separate database.

> And regarding error no. 2
> On create new event page
> 1. Title and time are mandatory fields but not marked with asterisk(*)
> 2. Go to calendar -> save an event -> A calendar with an event appears ->
> click on that event again -> all the fields editable -> click update form ->
> it should go back to calendar and not give editable fields

For me it is going back to the calendar after being edited.

Thanks!

--Tom