HEDA Tech Debt: Consistently either set or not set the Faculty/Department Affiliation Start/End Dates

[robertbwatson]

• Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
  Bug/tech debt as discovered in Duplicate Department Affiliations are no longer inserted #694

• What is the current behavior?
  When the Faculty/Department Affiliation is automatically created and Course Connections is disabled, the Start/End Date is populated on the Affiliation based on the Term Start/End Dates.

When the Faculty/Department Affiliation is automatically created and Course Connections is enabled, Start/End Dates are never populated on the Affiliation.

• What is the expected behavior?
  Use Cases: The fact is each educational institution does it differently and we need to accommodate all models - for example: Adjunct Faculty are full time professionals but sign up to teach 2 night/weekend courses this term. One is for the Physics Department and one is for the Electrical Engineering Department. They will probably take a break after this term is over and maybe teach again next Fall.

Contrary to above, For a faculty affiliation with a department, I doubt they'd want to set a specific date range on the affiliation since that could be ongoing beyond that one term.

We should have a setting that allows institutions to select this affiliation and the start/end date (if at all).

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
  The discrepancy should be addressed as behavior is different depending on a custom setting, but it's not clear why the behavior is different.

• Acceptance Criteria

  • Given: I have Course Connections disabled or enabled,
  • When: I insert a new Faculty Course Connection or Course Offering and the Faculty does not already have a Department Affiliation,
  • Then: A new Affiliation record is created, with the following fields specified: TBD

• Keyboard Acceptance Criteria

  • Given: I am navigating the site using only my keyboard
  • When: I tab to the button
  • Then: I should see the button highlighted on focus
  • And When: I press enter on a highlighted button
  • Then: An action should occur

• Screenreader Acceptance Criteria

  • Given: I am using a screenreader to navigate the site
  • When: I tab to the button
  • Then: I should hear the label of the button
  • And When: I press enter
  • Then: I should hear that an action has occurred

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Tracking W-031181