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Key: CHD-498
Type: Improvement Improvement
Status: Open Open
Assignee: Unassigned
Reporter: Joe Geck
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[Search] A few readability suggestions for the Current Criteria sidebar

Created: 04/Feb/08 06:28 PM   Updated: 16/Aug/10 06:18 PM
Fix Version/s: Sea of 1000 Wishes

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Value: 3 - Would Be Nice
Marquee: Usability


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Summary:

(1)
Closed, Deleted, Waiting use 1/0 instead of true/false. In my opinion 1/0 isn't necessarily common knowledge when referring to true/false, plus when adding criteria you pick true or false not 1 or 0.

Waiting = 1
Closed = 0

vs

Waiting = true
Closed = false

(2)
Created, Updated, Due use 0 when representing a search between "now and today". It might be better listed as "today, today".

Created between 0, today

vs

Created between today, today

Note that it actually does work this way if you reverse the default text when adding criteria. So for example it normally reads:

Between:
[blank]
-and-
today

if you change that to

Between:
today
-and-
[blank]

and save you will get "today, today". Some of the other cases do make sense such as "0, +2 days" so it might be just my personal preference. :)

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Comment by Jeff Standen [WGM] [25/Nov/08 02:43 PM]
@Joe
Actually "0" in a date doesn't stand for today, it means "since the beginning of recorded time" from the perspective of the computer, which is around Jan 1970 at midnight.

So a filter between "0,now" means "everything", and "0,-1 month" means "everything a month ago and older".

The other suggestions make sense.