Re: Does anybody think feedback saying "nothing changed" is useful?

Thomas Arendsen Hein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* John P. Rouillard <[email protected]> [20170421 03:22]:
> 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?

What about "issue 1234 updated ok" or something similar, i.e. just
not displaying which properties have been saved, but confirming that
something happened?

Regards,
Thomas

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