[Babase] Supergroup Issue
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Wed May 14 11:48:32 EDT 2008
On 05/14/2008 10:12:17 AM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
>> So, you can't rank in a permanent group with no From group before
>> it's Permanent date. I think we've used this to provide sanity
>> checks for rank dates during the conversion from Foxpro. Maybe.
> This makes sense
>> (I know there were some rank date errors found.) This would
>> imply that the 1980-11-01 date is an artificial value. I don't
>> recall enough of the group's history to be sure. Perhaps this is
>> a Jeanne question? My guess would be that you want to slide that
>> date back to the date of the earliest valid ranking.
> I spoke with Susan, and she said that sliding back the permanent date
> to match rankings seems the best solution here. Since these rankings
> were only recently reconstructed from the notebooks, it essentially
> changes what the database previously 'knew' about the beginnings of
> this group. The earliest I have complete ranks for this group is
> 1979-11. Should I change this in the groups table, Karl?
Makes complete sense to me.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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