[APBeta] Possible bug in ID synonyms

[Jeff Young]

Paul --

Ahhh... that would explain why it works for some of them and not for others....

Thanks,
-- Jeff.

From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Paul Rodman
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 10:57 PM
To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
Subject: Re: [APBeta] Possible bug in ID synonyms


On Dec 27, 2008, at 02:36 PM, Jeff Young wrote:


I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if I'm just using it wrong.

I've got a plan which includes NGC772, and it has several observations.  I've also got a plan which includes Arp78, which is the same galaxy.  It doesn't show any observations.  If I go to the Observation Database Settings tab, and type "NGC772, Arp78" and then hit Reset, the Arp plan still doesn't show any observations.

Am I doing that right?

Here's the problem: The Arp catalogue has two entries for Arp78 (one=NGC770 and two=NGC772). Since the mechanism that hunts down synonyms (currently) stops after finding the first one, it will never find the Arp78=NGC772 association. This is a bug. I will add a report.

The Synonyms override you mention does work here, although in theory you shouldn't need to go through the whole Reset procedure.

Paul R.

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