[Gnumed-devel] Re: Demographics textbox question

[Ian Haywood]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:17:40PM +1100, Richard Terry wrote:
> Ian,
> 
> Now that I've the tab running I'm looking at demographics. Was there any 
> reason my original screen design was changed, to remove textboxes for suburb, 
> postcode, type of address etc? The way it is now it is non-standard and makes 
Certainly, now that we can have 1 line per address above in the search
results.

> it harder to search by the individual fields. 
Huh? what's this got to do with searching?
> All the ozzie databases I know have the street information in one field 
> (multi-line) with seperate suburb etc.
We have street and number separate in the schema. However you can present 
them in a single box if you want.
> nominate one a the postal address as per my original design.
Currently we have several address types of which "postal" is one.
I don't agree with having a separate flag for postal, in the first
instance: it unneccessarily complex.

In any case, it requires a schema change, we have a poor track-record so
far.

Ian

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