What is the purpose of the Flagged Vehicles table? As I’m busy filling up my Known Vehicles table, I wonder if a “Flagged Vehicle” could just be an attribute in the Known Vehicles table instead?
Mostly a remnant from the very first version. I’m not fully sure what it’s purpose or use case is, but I think I’m going to keep it around. It might be nice to have a uniform classification for vehicles that just should be paid attention to for some reason.
Really all it does atm is turn the plate number red, but I think that’s kind of nice as a visual separator from the tags for any plates that are of some special importance or threat and should be noticed when they come in.
VideoDad
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Mar 17, 2025
I still think it could live in the known plates table as a boolean toggle field. If the car is flagged = “true”, then display it as red, otherwise as normal.
It would allow you to change the state of the flag as needed. For example, if I noticed a car was driving by every morning before sunrise I might flag it to see if I can figure out why it keeps visiting. Later when I find out it's just delivering the paper to my neighbors and isn't something I need to keep watching, I can uncheck it.
The advantage is I don't need to enter it in two tables or delete it from the flagged table to re-enter it in the known table. Seems simpler and cleaner.
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Charlie Algert
Mar 17, 2025
Mostly a remnant from the very first version. I’m not fully sure what it’s purpose or use case is, but I think I’m going to keep it around. It might be nice to have a uniform classification for vehicles that just should be paid attention to for some reason.
Really all it does atm is turn the plate number red, but I think that’s kind of nice as a visual separator from the tags for any plates that are of some special importance or threat and should be noticed when they come in.
VideoDad
Mar 17, 2025
I still think it could live in the known plates table as a boolean toggle field. If the car is flagged = “true”, then display it as red, otherwise as normal.
It would allow you to change the state of the flag as needed. For example, if I noticed a car was driving by every morning before sunrise I might flag it to see if I can figure out why it keeps visiting. Later when I find out it's just delivering the paper to my neighbors and isn't something I need to keep watching, I can uncheck it.
The advantage is I don't need to enter it in two tables or delete it from the flagged table to re-enter it in the known table. Seems simpler and cleaner.