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Associate auto-incrementing id with form submissions #163

Closed jde closed 8 years ago

jde commented 8 years ago

We would like to have an id for each form submission that starts at 1 and increments. This will allow users to remember submissions by number and to easily get a sense of the sequence of the submissions.

Solution: Create a new field on form_submissions number int. The first submission should be 1, each subsequent submission should increment that number by 1.

gabelula commented 8 years ago

I do not understand specifically which would be the user case for this issue. I started adding a number field to the submissions but when I went into changing the endpoints I have the doubt on how we are going to use this in the front end. //cc @jde @impronunciable @kgardnr

losowsky commented 8 years ago

@gabelula Here's some user cases:

  1. Sharing the submissions link with someone else in the newsroom. "Take a look at entry 15". If there is no stable ID visible then there is no easy way of sharing information.
  2. If the ID number changes every filter, it is confusing for the journalist to know what has happened - something that was number 2 on one list is number 4 on another

Any confusion about the numbering should be removed by the display of "4 of 11 submissions" written at the top of the column.

Unless there is a technical reason why this is hard/time consuming to do, It's a must for SRCCON beta.

jde commented 8 years ago

Fixed and merged