Difference between revisions of "Talk:NTCTXT"

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I like the idea of having two options for coding notice time, the numeric and the alphanumeric. That offers flexibility needed.
 
I like the idea of having two options for coding notice time, the numeric and the alphanumeric. That offers flexibility needed.
  
[[User:Rmm|raphael]] 20:27, 14 September 2009 (UTC):  Thinking about this...removing a complex attribute is good, having two different attributes for the same information in numbers and words is not so good.
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[[User:Rmm|raphael]] 20:27, 14 September 2009 (UTC):  Thinking about this...removing a complex attribute is good, allowing encoding of same information as in two places may be debatable if the attributes are not linked somehow. Might it make updates more error-prone, for example if someone encodes NTCHRS=24, NTCTXT="one working day", then someone else updates one but overlooks the other? (updated by [[User:Rmm|raphael]] 20:39, 14 September 2009 (UTC))

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jens 16:43, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Should this and NTCHRS replace NTCTIM?

I like the idea of having two options for coding notice time, the numeric and the alphanumeric. That offers flexibility needed.

raphael 20:27, 14 September 2009 (UTC): Thinking about this...removing a complex attribute is good, allowing encoding of same information as in two places may be debatable if the attributes are not linked somehow. Might it make updates more error-prone, for example if someone encodes NTCHRS=24, NTCTXT="one working day", then someone else updates one but overlooks the other? (updated by raphael 20:39, 14 September 2009 (UTC))