bwanders / dokuwiki-strata

Strata - a Semi-Structured Data plugin for Dokuwiki
https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:strata
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Feedback for non-normalized typed entry fields #20

Closed bwanders closed 2 years ago

bwanders commented 8 years ago

If a field in data entry has a type hint and the type can not normalize the given value then the user should receive feedback about this.

For example, the Start [date] field correctly normalizes 2016-02-18, but can not normalize 2016/02/18. Both represent the same dates to a human. Without normalisation the latter represents a flat string to Strata.

This break in user expectation is currently silently ignored. Possible options for improvement are: