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Bug 325260

Summary:	A talk "type" should not have a free-text internal value
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Denis Roy <denis.roy>
Component:	Dash Submission System	Assignee:	Denis Roy <denis.roy>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	anne.jacko
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Denis Roy

2010-09-14 10:26:46 EDT

A talk type has a name, a number of minutes and an internal value.  For instance:

Type: Short   Minutes: 25   Internal Type: submission

The internal type is hardcoded in various places in the sub system (and possibly the site).  We should either add some documentation on-screen to guide the user in typing the correct value (who knows "Short" talk are of the type "submission"?) or render the internal type as a drop-down field of values.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2010-09-14 10:40:44 EDT

I've added some wording to make this clear.  This makes me sufficiently happy for now.

Comment 2 Anne Jacko

2010-09-14 13:22:28 EDT

Yep, the internal type stuff was very confusing. Thanks for adding the wording to the sub sys interface. Perhaps we could also add something to the wiki about what the internal types do and/or mean?