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Re: [Gnumed-devel] still having a hard time with address input and Searc
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Liz |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] still having a hard time with address input and Search |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Oct 2011 15:51:22 +1100 |
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:20:23 -0700
Jim Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> When despite being in Canada, with province defaulting to BC, I input
>
> Community = Vanc
>
> my phrasewheel matches always show
>
> VANCOUVER PENINSULA (6330)
> Vancouver (V5T 2A8)
>
> despite that the first turns out to be located in Western Australia
> which I only determined from querying the backend, and also (6330)
> means nothing to me, and when the database has been bootstrapped to
> contain city names from many countries (which may be duplicated) it
> risks to be too easy to pick a wrong city.
>
> While possible to remove many cities (from other countries) from the
> back end
> - this is not possible once they have been used
> - they are helpful to be available, when needed
>
> so better would be:
>
> 1) filter by taking into account the values which can have been
> defaulted (or could have been user inputted) into region / country
> 2) show region, country within the community (urb) phrasewheel line
> items
>
> ? feasible?
>
> -- jim
>
6330 says that's in Western Australia
Now if the new customer is actually from Vancouver Peninsular, do you
want access to those default values from a database or not?