Enquiry information structure

Enquiry basic info

See enquiry-basics and enquiry-edit ui pages

• EnqID: sequential integer starting with 1
• ETypeID: type of the enquiry
• EnqActB: enquiry active or not; boolean
• EnqName: enquiry name; supplied by user in own language; length limited, used as link text
• EnqNote: enquiry notes; supplied by user in own language

Enquiry location info

see location info for details of the location information by itself.

User's location for enquiry

For each enquiry, the enquirer must specified a location for that enquiry. One possible location is "No location". If not no location, they may also specify a required maximum distance for the respondent.

• EnqLID: user's location ID for enquiry
• If this is the special "no location" value, it is like saying the enquiry is "nowhere". The enquiry will not match any that specifies a maximum distance, and that it will show up bottom if the respondent has closeness as desirable. This is equivalent to withholding one's location from the enquiry.
• Another special value of EnqLID means the current device location.

Location wants

• ELocEssB: one boolean meaning "I'm setting a maximum distance" or not – if set, a maximum distance must be supplied; if not set, any max distance is ignored.
• EMaxDist: an optional maximum distance.

Thus:

EnqLID is special "nowhere" value

implies ELocEssB must be false

EnqLID is other; ELocEssB is false

means "I'm at EnqLID, but I don't mind where the other person is"

EnqLID is other; ELocEssB true

means "I'm at EnqLID, and use EMaxDist to filter others".

This doesn't deal with every conceivable option, but hopefully good enough.

Enquiry want info

See enquiry-question ui page. Questions here include all questions:

• asked as essential (a requirement)
• asked as desirable (a preference)
• under consideration
• unasked, with muted answer

• EQList is a list of QIDs. For each QID: (see question info):
• MyEQWNote: description of what is sought in this particular question
• EQGrade: essential / desirable / considering / unasked
• EQGradLabel is not stored, but recreated from EQGrade and Lang
• MyEQWants: bit pattern, limits, etc.
• EQAllB; EQExtB: (all options required; extra options accepted)
• neither: for single option questions
• just EQAllB: exact match needed
• just EQExtB: some overlap wanted
• EQAllB; EQExtB: all must be covered, accept more
• EQMuteB: whether answer is muted in this enquiry

Muting behaviour

An answer can be withheld (muted) or supplied (unmuted) in each enquiry. EQMuteB behaves as follows:

• false → withhold | mute → true
• true → supply | unmute → false

A withheld or muted answer will not show up in any correspondence, so will not show up in any answer history either. If it is subsequently supplied or unmuted, the history will again show up in correspondences. Periods of withholding are transparent, as the answer itself has not changed.

Muting information is stored here in the Question section of the enquiry. Alternatively to using EQMuteB, we could store a list of muted QID for the enquiry