2009/6/18 Richard Pope <[email protected]>: > Dafydd Vaughan has built this and needs some help populating it: > http://www.whattheyclaimed.com/ > Details for adding: > http://www.whattheyclaimed.com/admin > user : password > It uses the names and member/person IDs form the TheyWorkFoerYou API, so can > be linked back. > Guess it needs some kind of google spreadsheet to keep track of whats been > added?
The fields need to be aligned with the information that is available and perhaps have some explanation. The fields offered are: Period, date, value, title, description, category, location and person. For Communications Allowance the information available in the Comms2 form is: Period date start, period date end, allowance year, supplier, amount and date. Supplier is sometimes (though rarely in what I have looked at) blanked out it would seem. The C2 (for IEP/Staffing Allowance) can have multiple entries and has a "date of claim" rather than a period date start/end. Invoices will have all sorts of information, what seems to get through unscathed are supplier, tax date, description and amount (with VAT breakdown). For some reason VAT numbers are being blanked. So: there is not a proper match between the raw data and fields in the form: * the form has "Period" choices are "Apr 2007", "Sep 2007" and "Jul 2007". This corresponds to nothing on any of the underlying data. The "period" field in the Comms2 is a date range (which can be shorter or longer than a month). I'd suggest dropping this field or making it correspond to something that is present in the data. * the form also has "Title" - this could correspond to "supplier" but if it does then that's what it should say. Golden rule of raw data entry is not to ask people doing data entry to do much thinking. They work faster that way. Having fields that require an interpretative judgment is just going to slow people down (and ultimately irritate). It is also much better if the field names and their order correspond exactly the the data source, then it can all be done with no brain. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
