[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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