[Babase] Fwd: baboons with no deathdate and Ositeti subgroups (formerly Mica's infant MESHAEK)

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Tue Sep 22 10:50:25 EDT 2009


On 09/22/2009 08:45:05 AM, Niki Learn wrote:

> So you would be okay with a new status, Karl?  Maybe something like
> "alive at last census"?
> 

Sure.  Although as Susan said, you used to have one....

> 
> > However, Niki raises the point that this creates individuals in the 
> 
> > database that could theoretically 'come back' after 30 years or
> more. 
> 
> Karl wrote:
> We could even make a warning that checks for alive individuals with
> no census information for, say, 10 years.
> 
> Niki writes:
> This actually would go a long way to solving the problem since the
> majority of the individuals that should definitely not be showing up
> again have not been censused for more than ten years.  When you say
> warning does that mean it would generate an error during upload or is
> a warning something different (maybe that would ask you whether you
> really want to enter that data since the individual hasn't been seen
> in > 10 years)?  This also sounds much simpler to implement than
> messing around with the statuses.  Does this sound like a good idea 
> to
> everybody?

Warnings are what we've not done.  They run in batch on a regular basis
(and could be run manually, etc.)  The batch runs would send email or
some such.


Karl <kop at meme.com>
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