[Gnumed-devel] menu Person > Register new (old style)

[Jim Busser]

Can it be clarified why

        (old style)

is being retained? I have compared it to the newer version of "person  
creation" and here is all that I can see:

- old style has 15 fields
- as far as I can discern, new style has only these 3 differences:

1) Date of birth is now optional, but remains advisable (coloured  
orange) so the old widget offers only to the user to "not forget" to  
enter DOB but this seems hardly a reason as it is clearly enough  
available *and* emphasized and any user who truly wished to evade  
entering Date of birth could just use the new widget.

2) Date of birth now splits the "date" portion (year month & date in  
varying locale formats) from the time portion, which is now also  
optional. For any users who would have bothered to enter an actual  
datetime stamp (where the time portion was actually valid), capturing  
people's time of birth does now impose the additional work of one tab  
key press. In workflow terms however, I can see no net loss when  
considering that datetime stamp is 10 characters and easy to miskey,  
plus the fact that on reference documents the time would almost  
always be shown distinct from the date, anyway.

3) There is now otherwise only *one* more field, "Address" – which I  
suggest be renamed Search (modify) – which operates a phrasewheel to  
assist in the input of existing or partially-existing addresses.

So unless I am missing something, can (old style) be dropped?