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From: Donald Joseph Schulteis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] End of Sentence Codes - location of "No Caps" code
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:50:09 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <20062111213.986645@Terry3>


From a different perspective.

When researchers enter discrete events into TMG, and the "enter information" requires the information from two discrete events to be output contiguous, the responsibility for this, in all cases, rests with the researcher, not the program. The important point here is the word discrete and the events "information outputting."

If the researcher does not wish for the two events to be output managed discretely, then the researcher needs to address this. It certainly is not that difficult to do as the researcher needs but record the outputted information under one discrete event.

What we seem to lose sight of is discrete events when viewed as part of a person's detail view, and this same "information" when actually output, are not necessarily compatible. Managing information for one, say the detail view, is not the same as managing the information for the other, say the report view.

We can plan and we can discuss this all we want but we will always come back to the same "problem", they are not the same and cannot be managed the same as long as the architecture of the program remains as it is.

If we want them to function the same, we need to address the program's architecture, not sentence construction.

From a program perspective, the researcher has this control today; enter the information so it can be "predictably" managed by the program as the researcher expects; not as in "read my mind."

Donald


Terry Reigel <> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:49:59 -0500, William M Roberts wrote:
> Terry
>
> Has anyone thought about hoe the output will be ordered?
> There is no guarantee that TMG will output tags with the
> same sort date in any order, so if you expect the tags to
> be output as 1 and then 2 and TMG decides to output them
> as 2 and then 1, what will be the result of all of this
> exercise.

It hadn't occurred to me that there was any issue. I assume there will
be no change in tag sorting, which I believe currently is:

1. Tags sort in sort date order.

2. Tags with the same sort date sort in an unpredictable fashion.

3. Undated tags sort to top or bottom of the tag box according to a
user setting, and at the top of reports.

So the user would have the same responsibility to insure desired sort
order, and the same tools to achieve it, as today.

Terry


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