Thread:Mhommer/@comment-15636815-20150921154609/@comment-15636815-20150929181231

Mike, you're beautiful! I love you! LOL

The new template shall be called Infobox contractor, for consistency with the naming pattern of our other major input templates.

Creating a new name for contract is not so easy. Then again, if I simply modify the existing template, the only thing that will break will be links to seasonal contractors. As long as we hurry through Fritz (2015), we should be able to update the others without significant uproar.

When I modify contract, I'm going to add another feature to it--a feature that, IMHO, always should have been there. Currently,  will create a link like this:. When I'm done, the link will look like this:. The improved link will go to Johann's page and jump to contract 12, because that's obviously what the user wanted to happen, anyway. :-D

The down side is the editing required to make the feature work properly. We must edit every contract list and add an id tag to every contract, or at least to every contract that has a link to it.

The up side is that I can add the feature now and it won't break anything. If  doesn't exist, then the system will dump the user at the top of Johann's page, which is identical to the current behaviour. We can change the important stuff right away, then go back at a more leisurely pace and add the id tags.