Over the years, I check (almost daily) RR's database to find anything that might have changed on the "map" for Virginia--specifically those counties I've programmed for my scanner--looking for an item (county) to be shaded green indicating a change that may affect my programming (or yellow if I didn't happen to catch it on the day something changed).
This is a nice feature.
What's not so nice, however, is if a TalkGroup has been DELETED. There's no row left in the TalkGroup Category table to "color", and consequently, no remaining information left behind for me to easily deduce which row out of (potentially) hundreds, is no longer present.
This need not be this way, in my opinion....
At the top part of any given database page, (e.g., Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS), the change is listed as sort of a summary (i.e., "Last Updated"), and then further down (if its an update or a new TalkGroup) one can find the yellow or green shading for the new or modified entity.
No problem, here.
But.... If it is a deletion, why not list the pertinent information in what I am calling the "Summary" (i.e., Last Updated), at the very least, the Alpha Tag or Decimal Format number (or better yet, include the Talkgroup Category Menu) of the item which was deleted.
As it is presently, the Last Updated value simply displays the following (by way of example):
"Last Updated: August 30, 2013, 8:40 pm (Deleted 1 talkgroup(s))"
If the administrator "knows" (at the time of deletion--and presumably, he does), which item has been deleted--but does not record any associated "identifier", this important, relevant information "dies" with his removal of the actual row in question.
If I knew the Alpha Tag, Decimal Value, and the Talkgroup Category Menu the deleted item belonged to, I'd have more than a fighting chance of being able to open my programming application and remove the deleted item(s) and re-sync my scanner.
As it is now, I have no real way to reconcile my programming without performing a tedious and laborious comparison between RR content and my programming application. And just "re-downloading" everything from RR is not a viable solution, either, as I customize certain Alpha Tags to suit my own "abbreviated text" sense. I'd lose that customization if I simply re-downloaded from RR every time some TalkGroup gets whacked.
It would be very nice if the RR database administrator, could summarize the pertinent information for posterity, before removing all previous trace of the said information.
Thanks in advance to any consideration afforded this notion.
Regards,
Mike Gentry
This is a nice feature.
What's not so nice, however, is if a TalkGroup has been DELETED. There's no row left in the TalkGroup Category table to "color", and consequently, no remaining information left behind for me to easily deduce which row out of (potentially) hundreds, is no longer present.
This need not be this way, in my opinion....
At the top part of any given database page, (e.g., Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS), the change is listed as sort of a summary (i.e., "Last Updated"), and then further down (if its an update or a new TalkGroup) one can find the yellow or green shading for the new or modified entity.
No problem, here.
But.... If it is a deletion, why not list the pertinent information in what I am calling the "Summary" (i.e., Last Updated), at the very least, the Alpha Tag or Decimal Format number (or better yet, include the Talkgroup Category Menu) of the item which was deleted.
As it is presently, the Last Updated value simply displays the following (by way of example):
"Last Updated: August 30, 2013, 8:40 pm (Deleted 1 talkgroup(s))"
If the administrator "knows" (at the time of deletion--and presumably, he does), which item has been deleted--but does not record any associated "identifier", this important, relevant information "dies" with his removal of the actual row in question.
If I knew the Alpha Tag, Decimal Value, and the Talkgroup Category Menu the deleted item belonged to, I'd have more than a fighting chance of being able to open my programming application and remove the deleted item(s) and re-sync my scanner.
As it is now, I have no real way to reconcile my programming without performing a tedious and laborious comparison between RR content and my programming application. And just "re-downloading" everything from RR is not a viable solution, either, as I customize certain Alpha Tags to suit my own "abbreviated text" sense. I'd lose that customization if I simply re-downloaded from RR every time some TalkGroup gets whacked.
It would be very nice if the RR database administrator, could summarize the pertinent information for posterity, before removing all previous trace of the said information.
Thanks in advance to any consideration afforded this notion.
Regards,
Mike Gentry