WARNING RE: 5.5 Xlate GUI

[Mark Thompson]

Running Cloverleaf 5.5 Rev 1 on AIX, we discovered a problem with copy/pasted IF statements in the Xlate GUI.

Here is the sequence of events:

– In the 5.5 GUI, copy an IF statement

– Paste the IF statement to a new location

– Change any action included under the pasted IF statement (not the condition of the IF statement itself).

– Apply the change

– Save the Xlate

– Close the Xlate

– Reopen the Xlate

Presto, the action on the pasted IF statement has reverted to its original (pasted) values — your changes to that action are lost.

Quovadx support says this is a known bug that will be resolved in Cloverleaf 5.6.

There are 2 work-arounds:

1) Don’t paste IF statements; OR

2) Save & Close the Xlate immediately after copy/pasting an IF statement.  Re-open the Xlate before modifying actions on the pasted IF statement.

- Mark Thompson
HealthPartners

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[Robert Kersemakers]

Hi Mark,

We noticed this bug last friday: my colleague copied a few IF-statements and then tried to remove some echo’s inside these IFs. And although the echo’s were removed, they still showed up when running the translation through the testing tool.

I just tried what you described and I can definitely confirm this bug. Thanks for mentioning it. IMHO this should be solved in CL5.5 also: we can’t keep upgrading just to have some bugs fixed!

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

[James Cobane]

All,

We’ve noticed similar behavior in 5.4.1 as well.

[Russ Ross]

I’m very happy  😆  to have read this post so I do not end up joining you in  the nut house when we upgrade.

Russ Ross
RussRoss318@gmail.com

[Bob Schmid]

I thank you too….stability is priority.

[John Hamilton]

Stability is over rated.  😀

[Robert Kersemakers]

Is there any indication that this bug will be resolved with a patch for CL 5.4.1/5.5?

Last week I kept staring at a new translation for more than an hour and wondering why it didn’t behave the way it should. Next day I saw that I copied an entire ITERATE with an IF in it, and the IF-changes I made were reverted to the original IF.

It just won’t work that you need to remember NOT to copy IF-statements…

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

[Paul Johnston]

Hello All ,

Thank you , Thank you,  Thank you for those who noticed this as well .

I am not loosing my mind.

I have also noticed when copying the IF ,it is placed at the top of the XLT.  😕

Paul .

Cloverleaf 5.4.1 running on HPUX 11i .

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