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The help message for timetable is a bit misleading #738

Open nus-pe-bot opened 4 years ago

nus-pe-bot commented 4 years ago

The help message for timetable says "Display combined timetable of selected contacts" but this is only one of the use cases of the command. This might be misleading for users who do not read the UG and think that by typing "timetable" they will be showing the joined timetable of all contacts

[original: nus-cs2113-AY1920S2/pe-interim#747]

lowxizhi commented 4 years ago

Team's Response

Thank you for your feedback.

This message was chosen by the developers, to be the most concise and accurate message that can encompass all 3 use cases:

  1. to display the main user’s timetable
  2. to display the timetable of a selected contact
  3. to display a combined timetable of multiple selected contacts.

The phrase "selected contacts" in the help message suggests that the user should select the contacts to display the combined timetable of. If he/she selects only 1 contact, only that contact's timetable will be displayed. If the user inputs timetable 0 he/she will still see the timetable of the main user, covering the first case. The input timetable can be used as a shortcut to timetable 0.

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