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by sybren
Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:12 am
Forum: TestLink 1.9
Topic: External ID - string or int?
Replies: 3
Views: 5989

Re: External ID - string or int?

PS: Often an "external ID" is used to denote an identifier from an external system, which is thus defined by that external system. With TestLink it is used in a different way, which I found confusing.
by sybren
Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:59 am
Forum: TestLink 1.9
Topic: External ID - string or int?
Replies: 3
Views: 5989

Re: External ID - string or int?

Ok. It's nice that it works in a reliable, well-defined way. When importing my XML was accepted without any warning. I'd rather see a message stating "you provided an external ID ABC-DEF but that isn't going to be used." - that would make things a whole lot clearer. Accepting data and then...
by sybren
Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:27 am
Forum: TestLink 1.9
Topic: External ID - string or int?
Replies: 3
Views: 5989

External ID - string or int?

Hey folks, This is my first post to this forum. I've searched it for "external id", but didn't find anything related to what I want to ask. In the XML examples in the 1.9-rc1 documentation (tl-file-formats.pdf) I see this XML snippet: <testcase external_id="POL-1" > <result>f</re...