[webco-beta] Physical Location vs. Home Location
Alex McHenry
amchenry@artic.edu
Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:10:19 -0500
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Originally, SAIC had a free text Physical Location or Currently At...
location. This morphed into a Home Location at some point. I agreed
to that change with the acknowledgement that it's original purposes
would still be addressed.
My problem is that I still cannot enter a free text description of a
location. Since this is the field referenced in Overnight reports, I
can't implement Overnight to security guards till they have an
accurate location as to where a student doing an Overnight is
located.
I've looked over the current implementation of Home Location and have
determined it to be unusable for this purpose. Referencing the
response I got from bug 2705 I entered about a year ago, where is the
option to enter a string? I assume this means free text?
From bug 2705:
It's been superceded by the use of Home Location and Physical location, as
mechanisms for tracking current location of a resource. These can be
strings or
Location resource objects.
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<div>Originally, SAIC had a free text Physical Location or Currently
At... location. This morphed into a Home Location at some point.
I agreed to that change with the acknowledgement that it's original
purposes would still be addressed.</div>
<div>My problem is that I still cannot enter a free text description
of a location. Since this is the field referenced in Overnight
reports, I can't implement Overnight to security guards till they have
an accurate location as to where a student doing an Overnight is
located.</div>
<div>I've looked over the current implementation of Home Location and
have determined it to be unusable for this purpose. Referencing the
response I got from bug 2705 I entered about a year ago, where is the
option to enter a string? I assume this means free text?</div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">From bug 2705:</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">It's been superceded by the
use of Home Location and Physical location, as<br>
mechanisms for tracking current location of a resource. These
can be strings or</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Location resource
objects.</font></div>
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