Re: A few more minor issues

* On Fri Jan 16, Ken Kahn wrote:
> 1. I clicked on Add New Entry on the My Blab page and then clicked on
> Back without saving or writing anything. I ended up with an empty Blab.
> Some kids have had the same problem.

Yes, this is because there is a sort of factory method in the background,
which creates an empty object (blab item, document, report etc). I believe
we'll have to live with this problem, I cannot easily fix it. The empty
object can always be removed manually, if necessary.

 
> 2. The reason I did this was I was wondering if the Blabs allowed me to
> upload TT files (or anything else). Reports are too heavyweight for
> causal saving. Couldn't Blabs have full editing as well?

I'll check how difficult this would be to change. Adding it to the
comments was fairly easy, so I would assume it should be easy to add to
the blabs as well.

 
> 3. One of the girls said she couldn't log on from home. It gave the
> error page that you get if you type your password wrong. She understood
> about case sensitivity and needed no help logging in from school. She
> said it was an XP machine.

This I haven't seen and cannot explain.


> The other day a kid forgot about case in his
> password and was stuck logging in until I suggested he try different
> casing combinations.

Yes, I realize case sensitivity is a usability issue, but I think it would
be too difficult to change.


> Is there some way to help such kids? E.g. a log of
> failed attempts to log in? Recall that they don't have an email address.

As far as I can see, there is no "failed login" log in the system. I'll
keep looking.

Jesper


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