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Better error messaging when something goes wrong messaging members

Open danamlewis opened this issue 6 years ago • 0 comments

I ran into multiple PEBCAK errors messaging members of a project recently, so I'd love to return a better error message to help project admins troubleshoot! Right now, if you goof up in any of the following ways, the message returned is the same: "a comma separated list of project member IDs".

I would suggest these scenarios to have better messages returned:

  • Duplicate member IDs in the list.
    • (Warn about duplicates; or still process the request ;))
  • 7 digit member IDs included
    • (Warn that a memberID has 7 characters; return which memberID is the 7 character one; suggest that you dropped a character or may need to add a leading 0)

danamlewis avatar Jan 17 '19 22:01 danamlewis