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

On 04/20/2017 07:21 PM, John P. Rouillard wrote:
...
> 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.
...
>
> 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?
...

Hello,

IMO your proposal improves consistency of behavior with respect to the
'quiet' attribute of a property. The documentation should reflect the
semantic of 'quiet' clearly. My attempt to summarize:

  When a 'quiet' property is modified, Roundup does not trigger any user
  visible side effect.

Your reply to Thomas Arendsen Hein exposes the use case for 'quiet': UX 
related properties, which should appear in the documentation too.

Regards,

   Georg

P.S.: great stuff, good to know it exists :)


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