[Treebase-guts] [ treebase-Bugs-2782687 ] confusing semantics for book sections vs. articles

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Bugs item #2782687, was opened at 2009-04-28 04:41
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Category: ui
Group: piel
Status: Open
Priority: 4
Private: No
Submitted By: Rutger Vos (rvos)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: confusing semantics for book sections vs. articles

Initial Comment:
> • When entering a book citation, the user is presented with a field for
> "title of citation" and a field for "title of book". What's the difference?
> When entering a book section citation, the user is presented with a field
> for "title of citation", "book section", and "book title" -- again, "title
> of citation" is redundant with "book section title", but at least in this
> case entering in either box seems to fill the same field. My guess is that
> the correct behavior should be the following:
> Journal:
> Citation Title -> title_field
> Journal -> journal_field
> Book:
> Book Title -> title_field
> Book Section:
> Section Title -> title_field
> Book Title -> secondary_title_field
> In other words, we should not have redundant entry points for "title of
> citation" and either ("book title" or "section title").  Also, in each case
> the title_field gets filled, in one case the article title, another the book
> title, and the third the section title.  Do I have this field usage correct,
> or am I mistaken? 

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>Comment By: Mark Dominus (mjdominus)
Date: 2009-04-28 16:42

Message:
Piel adds: 

 think the rationale and data model are probably correct, it's just that
two redundant input boxes are presented to the user when they both are
writing to the same field in the database.


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