Posted by Scott Marquardt on 09/25/05 18:08

John Bell opined thusly on Sep 25:

> That was my point, guess I should have said it that way! The users will
> (probably) not like having to enter a coded string, even if you keep it as
> simple! They may even deliberately mangle it if there is no value in it for
> themselves.

In this case, the only users needing to enter these have the only stake in
these particular data points. This isn't something they'll grumble about;
in this case, they're the ones demanding it. ;-)

The vendor's likely to be cool with this. I'm documenting things pretty
well, and a few of my other hacks to the system may end up as features.
They have an aggressive development cycle and are responsive. Best of
worlds for trying stuff.

--

Steve ;-)

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