[Babase] how to get in the missing Mdates

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Thu May 21 11:34:41 EDT 2009


Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 05/20/2009 01:13:13 PM, kfenn wrote:
>
>> The documentation also suggests that we can make our own CYCPOINTS 
>> row with an mdate and a source code of 'A' to make the database think 
>> that it assigned an automatic Mdate. Is this a better way to solve 
>> the problem? I'm finding conflicting suggestions in the 
>> documentation. The AUTO MDATES docs makes it sound like it's OK, but 
>> the CYCPOINTS page specificially says this may is a bad idea.
>
> The key part is this:
> <snip>
> Automatic Mdate Generation
>
> Babase cannot
> distinguish manually entered Mdates with a Source
> of A from automatically generated Mdates. Therefore it is not just
> automatically generated Mdates that will be removed.
> <snip>
>
> If it's ok for your manually entered automatic Mdate to be taken
> away by the system then it's ok to enter them.  My expectation
> is that it's a bad idea to enter them.
>
OK, but if we HAVE to have an mdate in order to enter a sexskin size 
(per the validation rules), then we have to make up an auto mdate, 
right?  I don't have a real mdate to enter.  We know why the original 
mdate wasn't generated (because we thought this was a conceptive 
cycle).  This is going to be a recurring problem as we try to upload 
sexskins because we always make a few guesses about pregnancies at the 
end of every update.

Tabby

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