Re: Proposal for Registry-display on task pages
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 06:20:59PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> > One question regarding the 'NA' values. I'd consider it more readable
> > if we would just print nothing if there is no entry available. Or am I
> > missing something?
>
> I put them down internally to record that one of us had looked for it. Our
> task list is likely the source for the maintainers of the respective
> registry to get the missing bit curated. I would therefore like to
> show that. And frankly, it is a bit of effort to show that there is no
> such entry (or that the cognate entry refers to a different tool) and we
> should take some pride in that.
>
> How about putting the "NA" (or should it better read "N/A" since we
> are not in R ?) in a hyperlink of a query URL of the respective target
> registry? We would then be userfriendly again.
Well, as far as I know we have no content to point the user to. So why
pointing anywhere? I keep on wondering whether I'm missing the point.
If a user want to do a query why should we fake to hold a hand while we
are clueless ourselves?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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