RE: [Bodington-developers] RFC: minor change to MCQ deadline parsing

[Adam M. <ada...@co...>]

Listen to da man!

adam

| -----Original Message-----
| From: bod...@li... [mailto:bodington-
| dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Matthew Buckett
| Sent: 17 May 2006 11:46
| To: bod...@li...
| Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] RFC: minor change to MCQ deadline
| parsing
| 
| Peter Crowther wrote:
| >> From: Matthew Buckett
| >> If the date field contains anything and it can't be parsed
| >> into a date
| >> shouldn't it warn the user and fail to save the form? Users
| >> are rather
| >> good at not reading error messages correctly or at all.
| >
| > Well, here we have two models.  Both assume your comments about users.
| >
| > First model:
| > - User makes changes to some fields.
| > - User saves changes; no changes are saved due to an error with a date.
| > - User ignores error message and walks away thinking 'job done'.
| >
| > Second model:
| > - User makes changes to some fields.
| > - User saves changes; as many changes as possible are saved due to an
| > error with a date.
| > - User ignores warning message and walks away thinking 'job done'.
| >
| > Which do we prefer?
| 
| The first as you say "Save Failed" rather than saing "Save OK, apart
| from the date because you can't enter it in a suitable format".
| 
| This is how most other websites work. If I order something from Amazon
| and enter a bad credit card number they don't say "Order Accepted, but
| we won't post out your order until you enter a valid credit card", they
| say "Error, please enter a valid card number".
| 
| The first model reduces the risk of confusion I believe.
| 
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|   -- Matthew Buckett, VLE Developer
|   -- Learning Technologies Group, Oxford University Computing Services
|   -- Tel: +44 (0)1865 283660 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/
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