[Babase] MPI data testing

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Fri Jan 8 14:35:41 EST 2010


On 01/08/2010 01:27:48 PM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Karl O. Pinc <kop at meme.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 01/08/2010 10:56:06 AM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:
> > > Karl,
> > >
> > >      Susan and I did a little poking together and found some
> > > problems.
> > >  One
> > > is that the 'decided' column doesn't seem to be computed
> correctly.
> > > It
> > > is
> > > TRUE for everything... So that will need to be fixed.
> >
> > This is because MPIACTS.Decided is true for every row
> > that ever appears as the first interaction in the
> > multi-party interaction collection.   This needs
> > to be fixed in the data - you and I got it wrong
> > somehow.
> >
> This doesn't make sense. I thought that 'decided' was only true if 
> the
> interaction was initiated by a decided interaction (Only AS OS or 
> DS).
> and
> that for any MPI that was initiated by a VS or anything else, this
> would be
> false. is that what you are saying here and I am just dense?

That logic is fine, but that's not what the MPIACTS.Decided 
column values say.  The data needs to be fixed.
> 
> >
> > I do see one problem.  Do we have a rule that when the
> > sequence number is one the MPIACTS code must all be
> > the same?  I think not, and maybe we don't care.
> > But, if any one of the sequence number 1 MPIACTS codes
> > have TRUE in the Decided column then the corresponding
> > MPI_EVENTS.Decided column will also be true.
> >
> > Please think about if we want such a rule and if
> > we want MPI_EVENTS.Decided to behave this way.
> >
> I guess I am really confused about the 'decided' information.
> In terms of the MPIACTS codes matching for sequence 1... I Am also
> confused.
>  If there are two lines sharing sequence one, the act would be the
> same by
> default since the program splits out those lines and not the person
> entering
> the data   right? So the only way to have different acts in two
> sequence 1
> rows would be if the program screwed up... I think?

The upmpi program is not the only way to get the data into the
database.  Data can be entered manually in ppa, or with SQL statements,
or changed once entered.

> 
> >
> > >     Also, (you may already know this but just in case) the links
> > > built
> > > into
> > > the MPI_events documentation page (ie context_types) are broken.
> They
> > > currently don't go anywhere.
> >
> > Goes to the docs for the MPIS.Context_types column for me.
> > Maybe you need to reload the page to clear the browser cache?
> >
> 
> Hmm    went fine on my computer. I Wonder if this is another Mac
> thing.
> Susan, want to re-try on your computer?

It's a browser thing.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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