RossBoylan
commented
11 months ago There are 3 points at which the data could be cleared:
- Immediately after hitting save and data committed to db.
- After user clicks OK on message that save was successful.
- Immediately before reading data in from a file.
@Teffany prefers 2. In favor of 2:
- data still visible when you get confirmation (vs approach 1)
- makes it even more obvious user is done with that entry
- protects against confusion if user starts another entry without reading text file
In favor of 3:
- you can still see the info you entered
- helpful if want to manually enter a related case (weak argument)
For safety, clear data at points 2 and 3.
If one saves one entry and then loads another from a file, some of the old entries may persist. This will be any field that wasn't overwritten. As I recall, that includes fields with values in the text file that don't match the allowed inputs.
Arguably the current behavior is a bug.