Closed SLornieCYC closed 2 years ago
This is a good point - "N/A" does seem to imply the missing value ought to be missing, as in your (2).
This should be changed to say something like NULL, or MISSING - any thoughts on what would feel most natural here?
I'll have to have a look into how this part of the frontend code works (bear with me, I'm by no means a javascript person), or get @kws on the case, but it feels like this should be an easy fix that we can take care of within the next week.
For me NULL seems more appropriate. That describes the absence of data without making any "judgement" about it (for want of a better word!) - to me MISSING implies that there should be a value present (which we know is not always the case).
Yeah that makes sense. I've worked out I can stick that in no problem, by editing line 39 in the file src/components/DataTable.tsx; I'll push this change & update the live tool tomorrow.
Thinking it'd be nice to put it in italics or something so it's visually clear it's not text, but that's where we reach past what I could feel sure I'm doing the right way, so will seek advice on that 😅
(Closed this and opened #59 to address adding a different style to blank cells)
At the moment null (missing/blank) data items are shown as "N/A" in the front-end. For example where UPN hasn't been provided, or the fields DEC and REC on an open episode.
This is misleading because:
1) it does not correctly reflect the underlying data 2) it is unclear whether N/A means "Not Available" or "Not Applicable" (e.g. MOTHER and MC_DOB fields on a male child record).