[Treebase-guts] [ treebase-Bugs-2992930 ] Uploading metadata with missing values causes exception

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Bugs item #2992930, was opened at 2010-04-27 09:04
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Category: ui
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 8
Private: No
Submitted By: William Piel (sfrgpiel)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Uploading metadata with missing values causes exception

Initial Comment:
The process for uploading metadata is to first download a row segment template, then fill it in in Excel, then upload it. 

i.e. from this page: http://www.treebase.org/treebase-web/user/uploadRowSegmentData.html

On the following page, designate which columns to be uploaded. The problem is that if any of the designated columns have no data for one or more rows, the parser throws an exception. What it should do is treat empty fields as NULL. 

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>Comment By: Hilmar Lapp (hlapp)
Date: 2010-04-27 11:33

Message:
There is no good workaround, and this is bad enough that it could cause
people to give up on submitting data.

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