[Roundup-users] Does anybody think feedback saying "nothing changed" is useful?

[John P. R. <ro...@cs...>]

Hi all:

I am sure you all have seen the feedback banner with a green or red
background when you make changes to an issue, user etc. It details
which properties were updated.

Some properties can be set to quiet by the roundup tracker
designer. This prevents changes to them from showing up in change
notes (sent via email), from being displayed in the history section of
the web interface and prevents the change from being listed in the
feedback banner.

If all the changes are to quiet properties you see a message like:

  issue24 - nothing changed

  user2 - nothing changed

Does anybody think these types of messages are useful?

They are actually misleading. Things were changed. They just aren't
being shown to the user because the tracker designer said they
shouldn't be shown.

I am planning on changing to code to eliminate the "nothing changed"
notification. As a result when a user submits a form where all the
properties are quiet, the form is redisplayed with no banner. Just as
though the form had been submitted with no changes.

Does anybody have any thoughts?

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