Re: [Gnumed-devel] Address entry - workflow

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-09-18, at 2:20 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> In fact, the area label sayeth:
> 
>       *Primary* address
> 
> and since GNUmed technically treats it as a "home" address
> that much is hinted at.
> 
> So, when someone enters a business address it seems
> abundantly clear that GNUmed understands the user to this
> being the "primary" address in terms of relevance and will
> treat it as the "home" address.

The user is offered no control of the value which gets inserted into the 
address 'type' … the value which gets inserted is

        'home'

so all I am saying is why confuse the label with "Primary"?

If I create persons via importer and would assign such persons a single address 
of value other than 'home' (let us say I assigned a value of 'main'), these 
single addresses must still, by default, be the 'active' (or as you maybe also 
mean, 'primary') addresses, must they not? 

Wait - surely you don't mean that

        home = NOT where the person lives / resides / sleeps

        home = whatever is first inserted for this individual?

This IMO makes no sense. This should mean that the value inserted into the 
address 'type' should instead be 'primary' so it makes no assumptions about 
alternative possible values of type.

Maybe I still fail to understand what you mean when GNUmed will 'treat it as a 
home address'.  Do you mean as the 'active' address? But that will always be 
the case for *any* new person creation, where the widget about which we are 
talking allows to create (at most) only a *single* address, so why would we 
imagine anything else could, at this early stage, be the 'active' address?

: - )

PS is there some requirement in GNUmed that a person cannot be created, without 
-- at the same time -- creating an address for them? This is what the widget 
enforces. 

-- Jim