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Bug 325260 - A talk "type" should not have a free-text internal value
Summary: A talk "type" should not have a free-text internal value
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Dash Submission System (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Denis Roy CLA
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Reported: 2010-09-14 10:26 EDT by Denis Roy CLA
Modified: 2013-02-25 16:02 EST (History)
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Description Denis Roy CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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?