(10-12-2012 06:01 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: The question is why just collars? And, if collars are that important, why only on the Roster page and not elsewhere?
Because they were historically shown, at times there were no vests or hats yet. Adding another few columns will make the pedigree even more wide, beeing useless on many smaller screens, which is already a problem now. Removing them is not an option either, you can't take away something you gave to people before. i have an idea in mind, but its not a priority.
(10-12-2012 06:01 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: One good example of information only available on the Cattery, but not on the Pedigree Roster or Pedigree View (tree) pages, nor (reliably) in-world, is the date the box was created.
Thats because boxes "born" in the cattery appear in that list, rather then besides the cat as it happens in world. To get somewhat of a better overview, we added the date so breeders could sort them in the order they were born.
(10-12-2012 06:01 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: Yes, the Cattery shows the same "paint-job" information as the Pedigree Roster.
For consistancy, the cattery shows the same information as the in world cats for the traits. For both the cattery and an in world cat, you will have to consult the pedigree in case of a special edition.
(10-12-2012 06:01 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: The issue with which offspring are reachable from parent is easily solved, conceptually, and should be fairly easy to fix in SQL. First off, recognize that all cats always show their parents (if any) and grand-parents (also, if any). The issue arises when YOU (one Avatar) did not breed the offspring from the parents, but now own both a parent and it's offspring. In this case, as always, from the offspring, you can see it's parents. But, since you did not breed the offspring from the parent (someone else, perhaps your ALT, did), you cannot see the offspring from the parent's Pedigree View (tree) page. If, however, you DID breed the offspring from the parent, you CAN see it. This is a one-sided restriction and has nothing whatsoever to do with any complaints about privacy. And it's simple to fix. Rather than saying "If you bred the offspring from this cat you can see it listed below the parents" simply add "or if you own the offspring at this time." This does not change any information exposed by the system. It simply makes the already-presented information work both ways .. if you can see the parent from this offspring, and you now own the parent as well, you can also see the offspring from the parent.
I could make a case that instead of "at this time" it should instead be "ever"; but I expect that would require additional storage overhead not currently in the database. So, while it would be nice to have "ever", "at this time" will probably solve most of issues this one-way trap door creates.
This functionality, in the exact way you describe it, was added 5.5 months ago as can be seen in the news section (
http://kittycats.biz/blog/2012/05/03 ) as well as the forum (
http://kittycats.biz/forum/showthread.php?tid=3636).
We were not able to reproduce your issue at this time.
If you had the problem occuring more recent then 5.5 months ago, please post both ID's here so we can check.
Thanx in advance.
KittyCatS
