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Simon Brooke
 
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Default Identifying a boat - what are the main parameters?

"Wally" writes:

Grunff wrote:

It's beginning to sound like providing set selections for things
like builder and model will be impossible. They may have to be
free text fields.


Bad idea - too prone to error, typos, and varying interpretations on how a
name should be entered (like full name, acronym, abbreviated). The net
result is a potential for variations which would make searching more
awkward, since the searcher would have to try and second-guess the
variations and typos.


Afreed, but in many cases it may be necessary to have a menu with
'other' in it and a type in field for the 'other's.

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