[RESOLVED]Add to collection vs 'unreleased'

[Wajo357]

it would appear that for 'unreleased' items, we can't add them to our collection. However, if someone adds a release date to them, that is in the future, then we CAN add them to the collection. This doesn't seem like the correct 'intent'. Shouldn't it still be set as 'unreleased' and not allow people to add them to your collection? See the difference between:
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[engledogg]

Yep, upcoming items should be labeled as "upcoming", even though the future release date might be known.

MIKE
engledogg

[shmax]

Whoops... I'll see if I can fix this tonight, thanks, guys.

[engledogg]

Oh, I was just saying that even though we might know the upcoming date of release for future products, we should just mark them as "upcoming", pretty much for the reason wajo stated above.  Once they're released, we can fill in the proper date.

MIKE
engledogg

[shmax]

If you do happen to know the actual release date, you may as well use it--an actual date is always preferable, don't you think? The bug is that when the "upcoming" box isn't checked, but the date is in the future, the usual safeguards, checks and other behaviors aren't in place, so I'll look into fixing that. I came up with the "upcoming" idea specifically to handle cases where we have no idea when a toy is coming out, but we are pretty sure it's coming out. I think at one point we also talked about doing a "rumored" checkbox for toys that we're even less sure about...

[engledogg]

Ah, yep, this one has been here a while then.  So long that I wasn't even sure we could list both the future date in additon to checking the upcoming box.

MIKE
engledogg

[shmax]

So long that I wasn't even sure we could list both the future date in additon to checking the upcoming box.

You can't, unfortunately. I'm realizing now that I probably didn't design this feature very well. The problem is that even though there is a separate checkbox, there is no corresponding dedicated field in the database record--all I do is force the release year to "9999" under the hood, so that it is sure to come to the top of lists when sorting by release date. The UI doesn't make this clear, so I'll have to rethink it.

So, if you DO know the release date for an upcoming toy, then enter that date, but DON'T check "upcoming". I'll think about ways to improve this so it's more clear. In the short term, maybe I'll just include some help text...

[shmax]

I've got fixes for this stuff, but unfortunately I've got the code all torn apart for some other work I'm doing, so I won't be able to check in for a while. Look for it with my next update. Thanks much, guys...