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MM-cxxxiii     Friday

2000-05-12

It remains warm and humid with a few thunderstorms. It may sound boring but it isn't half as boring as weeks of drizzle.

At work I did some small fixes but most of the time went into documentation. I am now writing documentation for every function that I have to work on and slowly a picture is showing up. It is like masonry where a huge block of stone is slowly being transformed into a monumental sculpture while the stone master chips away. Cutting fine detail at this place and at that place while the rest remains unformed and rough.

One problem cropped up in America. On an order the user can alter the address for that order without affecting the address for other orders for that client. The intention is to allow delivery at another address for example due to road works or an other temporal situation. The problem is that, once the order is archived (after invoicing) that special delivery address is deleted and thus unavailable.
While solving this I find out that the special delivery address actually is archived as well but that the archive file is not used in the OMSI-3 (and TeleSales) modules. So sales apparently loses the address. That problem exists since 1993 but has never been reported before. And of course the archiving of the special delivery addresses is not mentioned in any documentation. Additionally the archive contains duplicates (if I read the coding right, our data is too bad to make that out).
Well now it is documented, and next week I will solve this mess.

In the news.
Well, lots of stuff but nothing worth translating.