The State Changers met to troubleshoot an issue with their software functionality regarding the handling of dates and timestamp conversion within their code. Significant points of discussion include:
- The initial problem was identified as the software being unable to change certain values based on the condition of a time stamp being less than thirty days in the future. Despite the condition being fulfilled, the software was not updating an item's cost to 0 as expected. - The issue was first suspected to stem from the software not reaching a point in the function to properly update the variable 'item.cost,' which was confirmed via debugging. - The meeting moved forward with efforts to identify why the function was not triggering its conditional statement based on the 'within thirty days' variable. - The issue was eventually discovered to be a type safety problem, where a date was formatted as a string instead of a timestamp. This was causing the conditional 'within thirty days' calculation to fail. - The participants implemented a solution that involved creating a new variable that converts "start date" into a timestamp. - After applying the fix, the function worked correctly, changing appropriate items' costs to 0 when the condition was met. Hence, the core discussion revolved around resolving a software programming issue, with emphasis on computer programming terms and actions like timestamp conversion, debugging, if/else conditionals, function running, creating new variables, and identifying type safety problems. No specific technology keywords like "Xano", "WeWeb", "FlutterFlow", "Zapier", etc., from the given list were explicitly mentioned in the meeting.
(Source: Office Hours 11/28 )
