Phantom weight changes in ITA

[NF-London]

Happy new year.

I am running ITA version 9.4.4

It might be topical at the moment to mention losing weight but ITA appears to be doing just that with assets.

I noticed last year (from the audit trail reports) that some users appeared to be fractionally changing the weight of assets in ITA.  When questioned, the users had no knowledge of doing this.  Therefore it appears to be ITA rounding the weight properties.  In the attachment you can see the weight has been changed.  The web client now shows 17kg but the desktop client does still show 17.01kg in the properties.

This is a trivial thing but the change logged in the audit does not mirror the desktop client properties.  I guess I just want some consistency - if the weight is being rounded up/down in the installed genomes then that should carry through desktop client and web client.  

Personally, for me, the most distracting thing is users making changes they are not aware of.

[Jef · Accepted solution]

Hi Nigel,

I will contact you to investigate the problem.

Kind regards,

Jef

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short update:

I managed to reproduce it in ITA 9.4.4. In web-client, if I view an asset in rack view and select the Weight properties/field (without changing anything), and then just let the browser/page be open. And then return to the page after a while (not later than 120 min), I will see in the audit trail that weight is changed (round the values to decimal).

I couldn't reproduce that in latest ITA (9.5.0), so it appears the enhancement in 9.5.0 may prevent the above-mentioned issue.