On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Barry Beattie wrote: ... > yes, and on further investigation, this seems to be the case. There > seems to be not a small number of clients affected by exactly this. > > what was the term used earlier? ... ah, yes ... "screwed"
=] I've been in this, um, "position" before, and there's always a way. Some form of automation is usually preferable to none, so, well, what about a little bit of double-duty? I'm not sure how the entities are set up, but perhaps with each job, you create the corresponding anti-job. [1]["command"] = "create entity bob" [1]["anti-command"] = "delete entity bob" [2]["command"] = "add alice as child of bob" [2]["anti-command"] = "remove child alice from bob" And then just run through things in reverse when you hit an error? Or perhaps you can store the state of each entity prior to updating (automatically), and just run through the structure in reverse, re-setting each entity to it's pristine state? A lot of it really depends on how the jobs are structured, and how you can logically break them up into the smallest possible revert-able unit. If you *do* automate it, chances are you'll be running a lot more transactions than a normal client, so if there's audit logs and whatnot, that humans have to go through... well, just take it into consideration, I reckon. So there's things like that, or, you can spend your time being productive while you wait for the owner of the app to implement the needed functionality. Speaking from experience however, that can be a year(s)+ wait. Sometimes it makes sense to do what you can to speed up your own end (and reduce entry errors and whatnot). Sometimes it doesn't. Most of the ones I've chose to do have been worth it. "Worth it" == if((development time - time it takes to do it manually X times) gt 0). There *is* only so much time in the world tho, even if you're saving time. Maybe just push the whole shibosh onto some poor lower-paid minion. "Sorry, the work-studies are going to have to do that by hand until the vendor implements solution X". Yeah... that works, too. -- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
