Questions

[Bruce Frederiksen]

Hi James,

Here goes for the questions.

Notes

Normally, knowledge base objects are versioned, which means that they can't be changed after being promoted.  These questions explore the versioning requirements for notes.

1. Can a note be added to a knowledge base object (say a rule) after it has been promoted?
2. Are notes versioned?
3. If so, can a note that has been promoted be changed?  Or can it only be changed in a sandbox and then promoted (like any other versioned object)?

Other note questions:

1. Do we need to be able to attach notes to individual lines in the rules?  Or just to the whole rule object?  If individual lines, then where a line says "if Q1 is A1->CF1, A2->CF2, A3->CF3, else CF4" do we need to be able to attach notes to the individual "An->CFn" elements?  The "else CFn" element?

Who Dunnit

Reading the Knowledge Base Objects document, which objects should we be storing:

1. Who originally created it
2. The time (and date) it was originally created.
3. The first promoted version it appears in
4. Who last changed it
5. The time (and date) it was last changed.
6. The last promoted version that changed it
7. A complete list of the promoted versions that changed it

Diagnosis vs Rule

Right now there is a diagnosis object (which just has a name), and rule objects.  Because there are different ways to combine CF scores, it doesn't make sense to have multiple rules for the same diagnosis.  Should these two objects just be combined into one object?  (But I could see a possible case for having rules that are not attached to a diagnosis, but are used by several other rules.  You had some examples of that in the rules that you did).

Help Text/Links

Is it safe to assume that help text/links can be added to objects later?


That's all for now!

-Bruce

[Bruce Frederiksen]

Since James is very busy, I'll take a shot at answering these...  (answers in green, though don't know if that will come through on google groups?)

-Bruce

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Bruce Frederiksen <dang...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi James,

Here goes for the questions.

Notes

Normally, knowledge base objects are versioned, which means that they can't be changed after being promoted.  These questions explore the versioning requirements for notes.

1. Can a note be added to a knowledge base object (say a rule) after it has been promoted?
2. Are notes versioned?
3. If so, can a note that has been promoted be changed?  Or can it only be changed in a sandbox and then promoted (like any other versioned object)?

Other note questions:

1. Do we need to be able to attach notes to individual lines in the rules?  Or just to the whole rule object?  If individual lines, then where a line says "if Q1 is A1->CF1, A2->CF2, A3->CF3, else CF4" do we need to be able to attach notes to the individual "An->CFn" elements?  The "else CFn" element?

We'll postpone being able to use notes until later.  We need to focus on letting the doctors play with the rules and formulas first.
 

Who Dunnit

Reading the Knowledge Base Objects document, which objects should we be storing:

1. Who originally created it
2. The time (and date) it was originally created.
3. The first promoted version it appears in
4. Who last changed it
5. The time (and date) it was last changed.
6. The last promoted version that changed it
7. A complete list of the promoted versions that changed it

We'll postpone this too.
 

Diagnosis vs Rule

Right now there is a diagnosis object (which just has a name), and rule objects.  Because there are different ways to combine CF scores, it doesn't make sense to have multiple rules for the same diagnosis.  Should these two objects just be combined into one object?  (But I could see a possible case for having rules that are not attached to a diagnosis, but are used by several other rules.  You had some examples of that in the rules that you did).

We can derive "diagnosis" from "rule".  That way all diagnosis objects are also rules, but not the other way around.  We'll still have two separate folders for them on the UI.

Help Text/Links

Is it safe to assume that help text/links can be added to objects later?

Yes, we can postpone this too!

-Bruce