[Babase] Auto mdates - for Jeanne and Karl
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Fri Jun 2 17:33:43 EDT 2006
On 06/02/2006 02:40:21 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
>
> If you look at time interval between an automatically generated mdate
> and the following tdate of that same cycle, you get a range extending
> from 0 days (that part makes sense) all the way up to over 250 days
> (yikes - seems really long).
>
> Jeanne, when you get a chance: I'm assuming 250 days is a red flag.
> I can look into the records more carefully and try and figure out
> whether we missed coding a gap in monitoring or if the cycle data are
> otherwise incomplete. But first I need to know above what interval
> length I should be concerned with. Is, say, less than 60 days
> probably an acceptable interval between mdate and tdate but 61 or
> greater something to investigate? 70 days? 50 days? I'm just
> pretty clueless as to what the "norm" might be.
The other possiblity is that I did not get the gaps into the db right,
so that's something else to check.
> On a slightly different note, I've done some other checking and it
> looks like the mdates are indeed being generated following the basic
> documentation rules. I'll keep playing around with it, though.
> Karl, I'll give you a head's up when I think I've exhausted all the
> checks I can think of. So far, so good, though!!
I need to double check the rules and the code, but I'm thinking I need
to ensure that there's no automatic Mdates after the individual dies.
It's been lurking on my todo list.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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