ucdavis / ucdavis/ipa-client-angular

BudgetView: UI should respect backend character limitations for 'reasons'

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JavaScript
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Description

Reasons is a column on sectionGroupCosts that we don't understand too well yet, but in the teaching call app it always had a couple words at most.
Ideally we could change it to a dropdown offering of a list of preset reasons.

SQL error:
Data truncation: Data too long for column 'Reason'

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Research direction

Start by locating the BudgetView code and the sectionGroupCosts handling for the reasons/Reason field. Reproduce the reported SQL data-truncation error and inspect how the UI currently accepts reasons; done means the UI respects the backend character limit, potentially through the proposed preset dropdown.

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Assessment

Tech stack
angularjs, javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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