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Duplicate applicants allowed #4981

Open nus-pe-bot opened 4 years ago

nus-pe-bot commented 4 years ago

Similar to add staff, the team did not consider that names of different casings but exact same spelling are same name. Before: Screenshot 2020-11-13 at 5.13.42 PM.png

After: Screenshot 2020-11-13 at 5.13.53 PM.png

[original: nus-cs2103-AY2021S1/pe-interim#4849]

IsaacTin commented 4 years ago

Team's Response

This functionality was inherited from AB3, and hence can be rejected. We wanted to keep this functionality in our product as well, hence did not change. Moreover, we did not specify that names are case insensitive in the UG and intend to give user the freedom to decide on how they wish to standardise the casing of their records. In the case that there are 2 people with the same name, this can give the user some freedom to have both records as well. And for this reason, the example you gave (which is to recognise that Marydoe and marydoe is the same name) is not the intended behaviour.

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