RE: [Emerald] Expiration "slipping"

David V. Brenner ( (no email) )
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:55:59 -0700

Dale:

Have you come up with a possible explanation for the problem we are having
with expiration and billed-thru dates? Is there anything that could
possibly trigger an those fields to inherit the creation date of an MBR?

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David V. Brenner - dvb@cport.com
International Services Network Corporation
http://www.cport.com

> > What does the LastModifyDate/User fields show for the account? Does
> > 5/5/99 mean anything on the account (like when it started, etc)?
> > What automated tasks you do have running at night?
>
> 5/5/99 is the creation date. We have one user service (PPP) defined that
> was last modified on 5/27.
>
> When my billing person noticed that the expiration and billed thru dates
> were set to 5/5, it was about 2:00 p.m. and the Master tab showed that the
> record had been modified at 11:00 a.m. today. She insists that
> she did not
> save the record at that time, but admits to looking at it. Even
> if she had
> saved the record, it is doubtful that she would have typed in those dates,
> especially since we bill monthly and always set expiration dates to the
> first of the month.
>
> As for nightly processes. I do a complete dump of the Emerald device at
> 4:00 a.m. About once a week, I switch to a new backup and delete the old
> set. I also have a process running that resets the Time Left field each
> month. This is a routine that you posted to the list a while
> back. 99% of
> our accounts are not affected by the script as the Time Left field is null
> for everyone but a handful of senior citizens who buy 60 hours per month.
>
> Frankly, if it wasn't for the presence of that particular date in that
> record, I would think she was making some kind of mistake, but
> that date is
> just way out of whack.

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