[Babase] More PsionLoad Questions
Lacey Maryott
lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Mon Jun 18 11:46:23 EDT 2007
Hey Karl,
While uploading yesterday, Leah and I came up with a new list of
questions, comments, concerns about Psion load. See below.
1. When we upload a file twice, there is no warning, or block against
it. (We found out the hard way :-P) Is there a way to have the system
prevent that?
2. A follow up to 1. We entered a file twice and we need to get it back
out of babase. The corresponding SID's are 38529 through 38546. Given
what we found in that particular file, we expect that we will need to
eliminate rows in samples, neighbors, parts, interact, allmiscs, and
point_data. Where should we start with getting rid of these rows?
3. We were wondering what happens if in the middle of an upload, the
internet glitches or cuts out or firefox crashes? Will half the file go
in, or none? Just curious.
4. Just FYI, it takes about 10 seconds to upload each clean file.
5. The new message you put in about what file is uploaded is very
helpful. Interestingly though, it comes up even when an error message
displays. It says "uploaded file: 060701P3" then gives an error. This
is moderately misleading, could it be reworded if the file doesn't
actually upload?
6. We found that each hour, to the minute I would get logged off, even
if I was in the middle of uploading files (ie: without idle time). Is
there a way around this, or did you make this this way for a reason?
It's not a bad idea if the comp is idle, just is kind of annoying if you
are on a role :-P
7. In file 060921P1 there was a row that just said F2..., then the next
2 rows were OS..., but the error which was picked up on this was
"Kidsuckle must be S,N, etc". We thought it odd that it didn't pick up
on the missing infant position before jumping to the suckle code. Also,
is there a code for "UNK" if we have an F2 row but no information about
the infant?
8. Another oops, kind of. In 061003P4 at 15:50:11, OXF was sampled. OXF
is not in biograph, so we changed it to 998, which has been the protocol
for these types of errors. However, it turns out that one of Onyo's
babies was born OXF, but its name seems to have been changed to ISO and
there are no notes in the demog or anything to indicate this. We hunted
down both and we are confident this is what happened. So, in the name
of accuracy, the 998 is pntid 428168, nghid 476023 should be ISO and not
998. Is there a way to change this manually?
9. Lastly, a WWWdiff question, in reference to the error we found where
the one cell had a space after the sname, is it possible to tell the
program to only read the first 3 spots in each cell, avoiding that
problem?
Ok, I think thats all! (for now hehe)
thanks so much!
Lacey
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Lacey Maryott
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
fax: 919-660-7293
Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu
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