[Babase] stumped in biograph 07a update

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Thu Dec 20 16:08:45 EST 2007


Hi Karl,

My first attempt to upload demog update data has met with total failure.

I need to update the Biograph table in order to enter the census data.
If I try to use your Upload program to enter a series of new records, 
the system complains that the bioid cannot be null.
I get the same complaint if I use the import button in the column browse 
window for the biograph table.
So I tried to manually enter one new individual using the "INSERT' 
button from the column browse window for the table.  It has a function 
to supply the bioid but complains that I haven't supplied a statdate, 
which I though was supposed to be populated by the computer.  Of course 
it can't supply a statdate if I haven't entered the census data, so I'm 
not surprised its complaining.


Do I need to manually lookup and assign the bioid for each?  Isn't the 
computer supposed to do that for me?

I haven't even dealt with the fake gaps issues yet!


UUGHH!
Tabby


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Tabby Fenn
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Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Princeton University
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