[Babase] Re: manual census entries

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Wed May 5 16:49:09 EDT 2010


On 05/05/2010 03:39:44 PM, Niki Learn wrote:
> Yes, you have to be babase_admin to empty members.  I do it every
> update.
> Actually I didn't even try NOT emptying members - I just assumed it
> would be
> necessary since we were messing with census data.  But then it threw
> errors
> when I tried to change the census entries to manual because the 
> latter
> part
> of Amok's life had not been rebuilt yet in members so it didn't like
> him
> having ranks and stuff when he wasn't listed as being in the group. 
> Do you
> think we could have skipped the members part.
> 
> We can't delete Billy's census data until the end, after all his 
> ranks
> and
> parts data has been switched over to Amok.  We can't switch that over
> until
> Amok is in census.  It is a circle.

There's no restriction on having Amok and Billy be censused in
the same group.  So I'd expect you'd add Amok's census entries
first, then move all the data by deleting stuff from Billy
and adding it to Amok, then delete Billy's census entries
last.

The basic principle would be to delete in an order that's
opposite from the order in which you add.

  I guess if there is a way to do
> all
> three simultaneously then we wouldn't need as many steps.  But I got
> rid of
> most of the manual census entries anyway so whatever.  This worked so
> we are
> happy.

Yes.  You don't care so much about deleting Billy's members because
you know he's going away so you don't care about errors.  It's
just a little spooky having to be babase_admin.  Sort of like
resorting to a hammer.  Nothing wrong with a hammer though,
it's a fine tool.  :-)

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl O. Pinc [mailto:kop at meme.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:26 PM
> To: Niki Learn
> Subject: Re: manual census entries
> 
> On 05/05/2010 03:20:10 PM, Niki Learn wrote:
> > I guess we should make sure each office has a full list of the 
> steps
> > in case
> > we ever have to do this again.  Most of them aren't in here though. 
> > Shall
> > we compile a list of the steps and send that to the list for
> > archiving?
> > Here's what I have:
> > 
> > Empty members
> 
> Wouldn't you have to be babase_admin to do this?
> 
> As an alternative why not delete all the
> census rows?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
> 
> 
> 
> 




Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein




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