Changing a Laptop identifier

The Laptop identifier has a bearing on various cross checks, output locations etc. Therefore, to change it all the related things need to be accounted for.

Check List

Laptop identifier related

• local laptop settings
  • set A_Info table/Settings (CCMBD.mdb) to new location
• directory structures
  • add a folder Regional Server\data\<Laptop identifier of this laptop> (full address: \\ad.wrha.mb.ca\WRHA\REGION\SHARED\ICU_DATA_COLLECTION\data\<Laptop identifier of this laptop>) (rather than re-name, to facilitate backing out if we can’t finish)
  • add a folder Regional Server\data\<new Laptop identifier> (full address: \\ad.wrha.mb.ca\WRHA\REGION\SHARED\ICU_DATA_COLLECTION\data\<new Laptop identifier>)
  • add Data to local.bat from any of the other data subdirectories, they are all the same
• batch files
  • set News and backup/Batstart.bat to new location
  • test n&b to make sure new location and directory name don't break anything
  • update locs.bat (used by Updt all.bat)
• workstations.mdb

Service/Location related

• confirm with the statistician whether there is impact
• CCMDB.accdb which feeds CFE tables
• CFE - anything?
• possibly table s_tmp table
• s_dispo table
• find/search through all VBA modules for the new name, the current name, possible equivalent unit name
• make sure that the location name is not relevant to any of the queries/CCMDB.accdb Data Integrity Checks ; I can't think of a nice way to automate this.
  • Category:Service/Location check might take care of this... if it was used consistently ;-)

Left to split out

• test sending to make sure new location and directory name don't break anything

Related articles

Related articles:

Setting up a new location ‎ (← links) Laptop identifier ‎ (← links)