[Sigia-l] Forcing practice

[Listera]

"Anne Miller" wrote:

> 'Please enter your staff number and remember to include a space
> between the 4th and 5th digit. If you dont include the space your pay will
> not be processed'.

I just can't get over just how yucky this looks.

If I were the one making the ultimate decision, somebody would have to
convince me, beyond reasonable doubt, even if a front-end alternate
wizard/app can't be used, why the posted data from the browser cannot be
intercepted at the server, cleaned up and passed onto the SAP back-end.

Technically speaking that is fairly trivial and wouldn't probably require
any fiddling with the SAP code at all. All you are doing is creating a proxy
app that cleans up data (or requests compliance until it is clean) without
the main SAP app even being aware of it.

It borders on criminal asking to the user to jump through such hoops, when
probably with minimum and mostly generic coding the problem can be masked
out.
 
Ziya
Nullius in Verba