Open alex-setyawan opened 5 months ago
Duplicate of #2339
[The team marked this bug as a duplicate of the following bug]
Over restrictive name validation to be only alphanumeric - some legal names not allowed
Description Set the context.
This app is used in a clinical context, which mean patient names are usually saved in full. However, some legal names containing non-alphanumeric characters are not allowed to be added into the system.
Steps to reproduce
- Launch the application for the first time to load initial data.
- Run
add ic/S9987654A p/98887777 n/Ramy s/o Shanmugam g/M b/02-10-99 e/ramy@gmail.com d/General Flu
Expected behaviour
To be able to add this patient and his details.
Actual behaviour
Disallowed.
Reason for severity
This may cause inconvenience to the doctors who are not able to save their patients' names containing characters like
'
or/
or-
, when they are common amongst people.
[original: nus-cs2103-AY2324S2/pe-interim#2957] [original labels: severity.Low type.FeatureFlaw]
[This is the team's response to the above 'original' bug]
Such issue is of valid concern especially for foreign names that contains special symbols. The team has actually taken note of this particular use case and it was unfortunately not included in the planned enhancements. Hence
Accepted
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:question: Issue duplicate status
Team chose to mark this issue as a duplicate of another issue (as explained in the Team's response above)
Reason for disagreement: This issue is being raised not regarding any feature of the app. Rather, it is about the documentation not being updated to match the app's current functionality. The user guide states that using commas under the "name" field is allowed, when special characters are not allowed in the "name" field. Rectification requires the user guide to be updated so that it matches the current state of the app and users won't be confused when using it.
When adding new people into the app, the "add" command cannot take in special characters such as commas, so this example in the Notes section might confuse readers at first.
Evidence names cannot take special characters: