[DDI-SRG] ok I know I said no more bugs..but...

[Wendy Thomas]

Pascl,

I've looked through these and those I'm finishing up the review for 
addition of Name, Lable, Description for consistancy. Now that we have 
clearly defined a Label as display text it should be structured...probably 
with the same required for comprehension and preferred flags we added to 
DynamicText content.

so we kinda decided without you....assuming you'd approve :)

Wendy


On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Pascal Heus wrote:

> Wendy:
> hmmm, good one. My concern is that some Label do not allow structure
> (variables for example). Having a flag is an interesting option (I
> assume default to false) but I'm not sure this is enough, some
> people/application will likely ignore this. Do we have a list of the
> Label elements and which ones need to be structured on unstructured?
> *P
>
>
> Wendy Thomas wrote:
>> Karl Dinkelman raised a point today when asking when they would see the
>> ability to use structured text in QuestionText. He mentioned that often
>> they need to indicate an underline or bold in a response category.
>> Currently this is not possible as Label is an InternationalString. This
>> made sense when we piled the content of spss names etc into Label. Now
>> that we have broken all of these different aspects out, Label is now
>> treated as display Label. If we changed this to a structured string with
>> the added ability to indicate if structure was required for sense and the
>> prefered display we would be able to meet their needs fully. The question
>> is twofold:
>>
>> First, does this hold true universally for "Label" or would we be
>> introducing garbage in some places.
>>
>> Second, are we willing to expand the resolution of our Name, Label,
>> Description discussion to include this or does it need to wait for next
>> time.
>>
>> Karl will get back to us with their assessment by tomorrow morning.
>>
>> Wendy
>>
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Wendy L. Thomas                          Phone: +1 612.624.4389
Data Access Core Director		 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
Minnesota Population Center              Email: wlt at pop.umn.edu
University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455