Re: [Gnumed-devel] Results tracking

[J Busser]

At 10:58 PM +0100 3/5/05, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> at night, when no one is working with the EMR and only the
> server is running, cron kicks off an import script that scans
> through the staging directory of the previous step and imports
> everything it finds there. This is where the database of the
> EMR comes into play.

Would the above importer adhere to what Ian had described at
http://salaam.homeunix.com/twiki/bin/view/Gnumed/DevelRefMisc#AnchorDataImportersAPI

At 10:58 PM +0100 3/5/05, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> All this pretty much applies to importing lab data as well: Do
> not mix fetching and importing. If fetching hangs/fails then
> importing won't be affected/hang, too, if separation is
> properly used.

Shall I add this to coding and module desgn guidelines