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Burroughs is an historical database of places in Lawrence, Kansas with a time-machine experience for the user dialing back exterior and interior views of city blocks, buildings, and businesses through the years, decades, and centuries, with building and business histories as well as public discussion walls tied to each physical location.
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identifying which building in data-entry drop-down lists #9

Closed stevedahlberg closed 11 years ago

stevedahlberg commented 11 years ago

Not sure if this is easy, if so, then as soon as possible, otherwise can use third part table editing to clean up after data entry - need to amend the building labels in dropdown lists to incorporate date range to distinguish building entries (e.g. "Eldridge Hotel 1925-current") because right now there are multiple identical entities in the dropdown list with no way to distinguish which one is which

ruralocity commented 11 years ago

It's a limitation of the admin gem I put in there--doesn't look like there's a way to easily override it. I'll have to come up with a different solution for that.

stevedahlberg commented 11 years ago

For now I started putting the date range in the Building title in cases where there are multiple buildings entered with the same name. But ideally building name should just be the name.

ruralocity commented 11 years ago

I've got this working in the non-admin form for locations. I need to swap out the admin section for it to be able to do anything more--this one only works with actual database fields.