Duplicate measurement entry in SeamlyME

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When doing custom measurement entry, sometimes it needs to have front and back entry like:

@HJA_across_chest_f , na , Across chest (15) Front , 6 , across_chest_half_f ,  ,  ,
@HJA_across_chest_b , na , Across chest (15) Back , 6 , across_chest_half_f ,  ,  ,

Instead of entering/copy twice, it can save time by duplicate:

# add front custom measurement
@HJA_across_chest_f , na , Across chest (15) Front , 6 , across_chest_half_f ,  ,  ,

# duplicate @HJA_across_chest_f
@HJA_across_chest_f_dup , na , Across chest (15) Front , 6 , across_chest_half_f ,  ,  ,

# edit the duplicate entry
@HJA_across_chest_b , na , Across chest (15) Back , 6 , across_chest_half_b ,  ,  ,
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Is it that big a deal to save a few seconds of not having to fill out a custom measurement that you will most likely ever need to edit once?

That said… there’s a problem with your idea. You can’t duplicate a measurement as the name has to be unique.

That’s one reason why editing the table cells directly is disabled.

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3

Is it that big a deal to save a few seconds of not having to fill out a custom measurement that you will most likely ever need to edit once?

It is for the need to duplicating 10 to 20-ish custom measurements, it waste me 30 minutes to do this.

That said… there’s a problem with your idea. You can’t duplicate a measurement as the name has to be unique.

There are several established ways to handle duplicate variable name, including but not limited to:

  • adding suffix number: _(1)
  • adding fixed suffix: _dup
  • ask what name you want if detect duplicate variable name.
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4

Just duplicating a measurement with a slightly different name? I feel like 10min for 30 measurements is more realistic than 30min for 10 measurements. You can use Copy & Paste in the usual way.

:unicorn:

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5

If I may quote Spock… “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.”

While UI desigin is important our main focus is on adding specific features that patterns makers need, not features that a few or the one feel are needed.

@mlouielu if you want to help & contribute - form your suggestions as a proposal of what feature (issue) you would like to address.

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