Multiple witnesses about myopicvicar HOT 10 CLOSED

I respond:
Oof. I had no idea about this convention. It'll take some chewing on
to figure out the appropriate way to consolidate the witnesses within
the transcript database. Kirk, do you have any ideas?

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Kirk replies:

The double/triple entry was a means of getting round a limitation within REG1. The correct process should have been tp modify REG1.

REG2 displays the records as they are entered. In this regard it is behaving in the same manner as REG1. So in my opinion it is not a priority problem.

The correct fix in REG2 is to permit as many witness entries as there are in the register. This will require changes to the CSV layout for off-line input

Perhaps REG2 should be extended to attempt to combine records but we could end up combining more records than should be combined.

If we were to combine we would have combine only those records in a file where all fields except witness names were identical. This is not impossible but would involve additional code.

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Andy observes:
Whatever we do regarding existing records we shall need to fix the test file so that there are records with more than two witnesses so that we can test this aspect.

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Andy adds:

Also exclude Notes content which (should) always be different.

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Is this still open?

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Yes to a degree.

While FR2 handles the storing of multiple witnesses there are a number of issues that need addressing as to how this is implemented in CSV files

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System already supports multiple collection with on_line entry and edit capability. Need

1. Display multiple witnesses, See 570
2. Download multiple witnesses in current csv format See 741
3. Combine current csv multiple records See 813 and 811
4. Search on witnesses See 810
5. Use new format csv to input. See 813
6. Download in new csv format, See 814

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5.  Do we have a definition of the new format csv?  It is needed to
handle more than two witnesses.  Mike might like to know and is it
being built into WinFREEREG?  TY  E

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With respect to 813 we do have a concept for a new format of which Mike is aware

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