Boundary values for percentages (included 2.03)

Standard Management 2.03 Decimal Upgrade Proposals
#1

This proposal is part of the 2.03 upgrade process, please comment by replying below.

Standard
Activity and Organisation

Schema Object
All attributes containing percentages

Type of Change
Modify definition

Issue
Descriptions of percentage attributes in the schema state that the value must be a positive decimal number between 0 and 100. It is unclear whether whether the allowed value is inclusive or exclusive of boundary values. Zero is unsigned (and so not a positive number), while it would be reasonable for a value of 100 to be set.

Proposal
All percentages should be specified to be inclusive of boundary values.

Standards Day
No objections

Links

Bug fix: Implementing checks on @percentage attributes
Bug fix: Implementing checks on @percentage attributes
#2

This topic has been included for consideration in the formal 2.03 proposal

#3

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#4

I would suggest that it does not seem logical or useful to be able to specify a recipient-country or recipient-region element that has a percentage value of zero?

Aidstream github issue relates https://github.com/younginnovations/aidstream/issues/91#issuecomment-319045107

Bug fix: Implementing checks on @percentage attributes
#5

This proposal has been been included in the 2.03 upgrade. It can be viewed in the following two Discuss posts:

#6