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When items are merged, item history doesn't always get preserved. #84

Open bjohas opened 2 years ago

bjohas commented 2 years ago

Currently the extension saves the item history when the items are actually merged. However, this leads to the following issue: If the user uses the dropdowns, the relevant item is adjusted immediately, which removes that field from the 'history'. For example:

Proposal:

  1. When the user initiates the merge, do 'save item details to note' for both items.
  2. Once the items have been merged, retrieve the two most recent 'item details' and restore the extra field as a merged extra field.

Note: