Possibility to add custom field?

[Joakim Bygdell]

On 26 July 2017 at 06:48, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>
> > On Jul 25, 2017, at 7:44 PM, Linus Torvalds <
> torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This message was in the Subsurface "Google Groups" thing, and I'm
> > moving the discussion to the development mailing list instead since I
> > think more people read that one.
> >
> > [ I don't know how many people follow that google group, thing - I
> > just do it over email anyway ]]
> >
> > Anyway, I suggested to Marc that the natural way to do this would be
> > to make it possible to edit the "extradata" { key, value } pairs that
> > we show in the "Extra Info" tab, and Marc said that would work well
> > for him.
> >
> > But obviously I don't do UI code. But it feels like it *should* be
> > fairly easy to make that "Extra data" thing be something you can add
> > entries to and edit.
>
> That wouldn't be too terribly hard in principle. But usually once you take
> that first step, people want more. Autocompletion of entries. Ability to
> search and/or filter. Ability to display the information in the mobile app,
> etc.
>
> I'm not against doing this, but I want us to do this eyes wide open.
>
> I really hope that Tomaz will NOT say "I'll do it", mainly because he is
> working on statistics and we have too many things already that got
> started and never got finished :-/
>
>
If we get this information from libDC or our text parsers, fine.
If it is something the user will add  manually they might as well add it in
the notes field.



-- 
Jocke
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