Openrefine: Data Type setted not remembered by application

[kushthedude]

Describe the bug

Change the data type of any cell, and see again the type of data is not remembered by the application.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'Edit Cell'
2. Click on 'Boolean Datatype'
3. Set the data to True/False.
4. Again click on edit cell and see data type as text rather than boolean.

Expected behavior

Data-Type preference should be remembered

Screenshots

[kushthedude]

cc: @thadguidry @wetneb

[wetneb]

The data type in the edit dialog should indeed be set to the current datatype for that cell.
There is no need to use the preferences for this - the initial datatype in the dialog should only be determined by the current datatype for that cell, I think.

[thadguidry]

I understood what he meant. Which was a "user preference".

@kushthedude our issues label "preferences" is to be used only for issues that involve using our global preferences structure which is currently using a Velocity template preferences.vt. It is not for representing static variables.

@wetneb We should probably relabel that label to "global preferences" because that is what it really represents for OpenRefine project and to avoid confusing new developers of OpenRefine on issues.