Closed noahmanger closed 7 years ago
@anthonygarvan found that there are there are 157 such documents out of many thousands displaying date 01/01/1900.
Broken down by document category:
Final Opinion | 65 Draft Documents | 11 AO Request, Supplemental Material, and Extensions of Time | 5 Commissioner Statements | 76
Tony made a CSV of all of those documents. Here's a sample pulled from them:
We had originally thought that a long-term solution would be to manually update the dates for these 157 docs in the database, but looking at these reveals that there is no date on the document itself, so that option is off the table.
Further, Jason from FEC confirmed in slack:
if there is no date present on the document, then I or whomever is dating and titling, unchecks the date box. This has been standard operating procedure for all published MURs, ADRs, and AOs. If you were do to the same search on the MURs and ADRs, you will generate a much larger list...
So confirmed that there is no date on the document, and we are unable to date it. Therefore, the date wasn't recorded/is unknown.
This gives us solid logic for writing microcopy for this field, which is the permanent solution.
Task: Figure out copy for the date field when no date is entered in the database
Options:
Not recorded
Unknown
Undated
@emileighoutlaw @nickykrause what do you think of the above options?
Tentatively using 'Unknown', feel free to update PR with latest copy: https://github.com/18F/openFEC-web-app/pull/2010
I personally prefer "not recorded." It seems the most accurate/specific. "Undated" is similar but might be an awkward word? Although, it has the benefit of including "date" right in the word, which makes it clear what is missing, as compared to "Not recorded," which might add a slight effort for the user who has to ask "what wasn't recorded? oh yeah, the date"
Minor details, I suppose...but I am curious what emileigh thinks!
Undated
= Not dated
?
Yes, sure - I like Not dated
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I love Not dated
When a legal resource doc doesn't have a date, it defaults to 01/01/1900, which is weird:
We should have a better default for this.