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Originally Posted by JeremyNicoll
Moreover, FM's GUI search interface lacks immediately visible documentation. There's no indicator that "after" might not be intuitive, and no link to a help page.
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Moreover, what help there is confirms: "Use before: or after: to search for messages before or after certain dates."
I can see no grounds to doubt the implementation is simply defective. FM's denial disconcerts me.
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Originally Posted by JeremyNicoll
Currently the search help page says nothing at all about "after date" meaning "after the first nanosecond of that day".
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That as expected - given such a self-contradiction would surely have alerted the team to the fault at the outset.
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Originally Posted by JeremyNicoll
There's a principle, "least astonishment", that's used in some programming languages and in interface design - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princi...t_astonishment - in which interfaces are meant to be designed so that they'll do what most users would expect. My view would be that this feature violates that principle. |
Agreed, but this issue does not rest on user expectation. It is at simplest a failure of program to behave as documented.
PS FM would find this tricky to fix without perturbing existing stored searches.