In Reply to: Re: Entering Multiple Bills posted by Ms Morrisine on October 16, 1999 at 17:37:45:
: 1) not make Hank think I'm arguing or
: torturing him
How did I get this reputation?
: 2) to satisfy my curiosity
: I'll ask someone else...
We'll, I'm going to answer you anyway.
: like what kind of software problems???
: . . . (in regards to this...)
: I relaize the each entry/bill would need to be
: verified. It would be necessary to reject each
: entry/bill for multiple reasons.
Right now, each bill is entered and validated one-by-one. If we were to provide some means to allow people to enter, say, 100 bills at a time, the interface and handling of errors is difficult to do (but not impossible, mind you), in a web environment. Due to the near-stateless nature of web pages, it would be hard to develop a set of pages to allow people to correct multiple errors if more than one bill is rejected. And since bills can be rejected for many different reasons, the rejects would have to be handeled on a one-by-one basis. Like I said, this is something I *could* do, but I believe my time is better spent making other improvements, rather than satisfy the minority request of multiple bill entry. I am also weary of people entering hundreds of fake bills - which has happened. One person entered THOUSANDS of fake bills, and it took me CONSIDERABLE time to weed out the fake bills. So, while it is possible, I don't think it is going to happen soon. Likewise, I'm not going to support "offline" bill entering for similiar validation reasons (for instance, there is a problem if someone enters a bill offline, spends it, and the next person enters it before the first person uploads his/her offline entries.)
-Hank