Changing a Laptop identifier
The location of a laptop (set in Settings.mdb) 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
This is untested,there may well be more to this!
We’ll need to
- confirm with the statistician whether there is impact
- Add a folder regional_server\programs\<new name> (rather than re-name, to facilitate backing out if we can’t finish)
- Add a folder regional server\data\<new name>
- Add a folder regional server\output\<hosp>\<new name>
- Update the information in S Locations
- Consider if any tmp studies will be affected
- Ensure that there is no code specifically mentioning the current location of the laptop (e.g. the long stay warning)
- find/search through all VBA modules for the current name
- address all finds; note: just changing the find to the new name may lead to undesired results, make sure the change is the right thing to do.
- make sure that the location name is not mentioned in any of the queries; I can't think of a nice way to automate this.
- Find out if any queries explicitly use the old location, decide whether to replace with new one; I can't think of an easy way to do this, likely have to do it the hard way
- change the location in Settings.mdb
- get local collector to send, and make sure all arrived, incl. in output DBs