Until now, a logbook entry never went away. A vet visit, a vaccine, a treatment, an injury, a heat, a temperature could be corrected: you could change the date, the dog, the text. But an entry that should never have existed (a vaccine logged on Kira instead of Nanook, a visit typed in to try things out, a temperature typed into the wrong litter) stayed. At best, you moved it to another dog.
Not anymore. Every entry now has “Delete”.
What changes
- On the website, in a dog's logbook: “Delete” on the row of a vet visit, a vaccine, a treatment, an injury or care entry, a heat, a temperature. Then “Confirm deletion”. In breeding, the same gesture on a dam's temperature reading and, in a puppy's history, on a care entry or a weighing.
- On the phone, in a dog's logbook: “Delete” on the same entry. A question tells you it is final, then “Delete for good”. It works offline: the entry leaves the phone at once and the deletion is sent as soon as the network is back.
- Who can do it: whoever can log it, that is the kennel's owner, handler and vet. A viewer or a guide sees the logbook, with no button. The demo account deletes nothing.
What others see
A deleted entry disappears for the whole kennel: from the logbook, the dashboard, the export. What it triggered stops with it. A deleted injury no longer keeps the dog resting. A deleted restricting treatment no longer keeps it off the team. A deleted vaccine no longer sends a reminder. Nobody sees that there was an entry, nor who removed it.
What it does not do
- No bin. A deleted entry cannot be recovered, not by you, not by us. Its correction history (“edited on… by…”) goes with it. This is not an oversight: it is what was decided (see below).
- It is not the gesture for a wrong date or dose. An entry that is true but wrong on one field is corrected (“Edit”), and the correction stays visible. You only delete what should not have existed.
- Deleting a visit does not take its treatments or vaccines with it. They stay in the logbook, simply detached from the visit. If they are wrong too, delete them one by one.
- An older backup brings it back. Restoring a backup made before the deletion puts the kennel back in that backup's state, entry included. That is what a restore is. If you need to, delete it again afterwards, or make a new backup.
- Not yet on the phone for a puppy's care entry or weighing, nor for a dog's temperature: the website does it, the phone will follow. It is logged.
Why a real deletion
In July we had decided the opposite: “a duplicate is fixed by correcting one of the two entries”, and nothing was deleted. The idea was to keep a record of everything that happened in the logbook. It holds for a true entry, which you correct. But keeping an entry that never happened means keeping a lie: a vaccine the dog never got, an injury it never had. Hiding it would have kept that lie in the database. “Removing it with a trace” would have shown forever that there had been a mistake. The owner decided on 15 October: an entry made by mistake is really deleted.
And why the handler and the vet, not just the owner? Because they are the ones who log most often. Whoever made the mistake should be able to fix it without fetching the owner, as with a weighing.