Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Alert flag appears with no alert

2012-09-07 Thread Thomas Berezansky
Alternative idea: When checking if there is an alert message trim the message. If it empty after trimming then don't actually consider it to exist. Then you don't have to worry about existing bad data or edits that bypass the "don't save all whitespace alert messages" code. Thomas Berezan

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Alert flag appears with no alert

2012-09-07 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Jim, For me, I've seen enough random nonsensical data migrate from our previous legacy systems into Evergreen to not trust that the data is meant to make sense from the get-go. We've done quite a bit of data cleanup in our database post-migrations. That said, are you suggesting that ther

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Alert flag appears with no alert

2012-09-07 Thread Jim Frey
Not sure if this is a feature request or a bug -- a patron record was flagged for an alert even though there was no visible alert text. The 'alert' consisted of 3 spaces which went undetected by the staff. Deleting the spaces removed the flag. Evergreen v2.2.1 Jim Frey Systems & Emerging Te