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From
07/10/2014 09:42:50
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
 
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07/10/2014 09:34:16
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Business
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Technical writing
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01608877
Message ID:
01608912
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>>>>Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>>I have the following error message text:
>>>>
>>>>"Credit Limit must be a number greater or equal than 0" (this error message is shown in angularJs web form).
>>>>
>>>>I am a bit concerned about than 0 part. If there would not be 'equal' part, then 'than' sounds OK. But with added 'equal' I am not exactly sure about this error message.
>>>>
>>>>Can you please tell me if this is OK and if not, how it should be formulated?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>Since the only option for an invalid value is one that is negative, you might also say something like "The credit limit may not be negative", or that "negative values are not allowed for the credit limit".
>>
>>Some users are not going to know "negative". I think that's why the mathematical term has always been >= and not !- ;)
>
>"Your credit limit should be like your attitude, always positive." :-)

Lol. That's really funny.

I have no trouble with the idea of having the error message match the code. In fact, quite often the code is more specific than the error message.
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