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| th1a | hi replaceafill. | 18:19 |
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| replaceafill | hey th1a | 18:19 |
| th1a | How was your weekend? | 18:19 |
| replaceafill | good | 18:19 |
| replaceafill | yours? | 18:19 |
| th1a | Good... had the last little league game (I coached) and a pizza party on Saturday. | 18:21 |
| th1a | Jennifer is coming home this evening. | 18:21 |
| th1a | The girls and I seem to have survived. | 18:21 |
| replaceafill | :) | 18:21 |
| th1a | Paper is done except for a few captions, etc. | 18:21 |
| replaceafill | productive week :) | 18:21 |
| th1a | Looking forward to a less productive one... | 18:21 |
| th1a | So, how long would it take, roughly, to mass produce individual report cards, each titled with the contact email address? | 18:22 |
| th1a | Like a new dialog. | 18:23 |
| th1a | For mailing from an external script. | 18:23 |
| replaceafill | uh? | 18:23 |
| th1a | Like, someone wants to email individual report cards. | 18:24 |
| replaceafill | standard report cards? | 18:24 |
| th1a | Right now when you run report cards on a group it is one file, right? | 18:24 |
| th1a | Yes. | 18:24 |
| replaceafill | ok | 18:24 |
| th1a | So one pdf per contact email. | 18:24 |
| replaceafill | so each student would have a contact email | 18:25 |
| replaceafill | you run the report on each student and mail the result/ | 18:25 |
| replaceafill | ? | 18:25 |
| th1a | Well, I'm saying we wouldn't actually be doing the mailing part. | 18:25 |
| th1a | We'd just put them in a directory so they could be emailed by a script or whatever. | 18:26 |
| th1a | (not our problem) | 18:26 |
| replaceafill | put them on a directory is a new problem | 18:26 |
| replaceafill | i mean, they're currently spit to the blobs directory | 18:26 |
| th1a | Even if it was in there. | 18:26 |
| replaceafill | even though they're pdfs already, it's difficult to track them from the outside | 18:27 |
| th1a | Track where we put them? | 18:27 |
| replaceafill | but ST does have the downloadable file attached to each report message | 18:27 |
| replaceafill | iirc | 18:27 |
| th1a | Basically this is not a no brainer then? | 18:28 |
| th1a | Couple days? | 18:28 |
| replaceafill | so, generate the report on a student, get the downloadable file body/blob reference an copy it somewhere else | 18:28 |
| replaceafill | not really | 18:28 |
| replaceafill | it's new stuff | 18:28 |
| th1a | OK. | 18:28 |
| replaceafill | unless | 18:28 |
| replaceafill | we could just create a export of: | 18:29 |
| replaceafill | email, file location | 18:29 |
| replaceafill | csv | 18:29 |
| th1a | Ah... | 18:29 |
| replaceafill | so an external script could just use it | 18:29 |
| th1a | We can't just zip them into one file? | 18:29 |
| th1a | (This is not very important, btw) | 18:30 |
| replaceafill | sure | 18:30 |
| replaceafill | but | 18:30 |
| replaceafill | you're sending all the reports to just one direction | 18:30 |
| replaceafill | ? | 18:30 |
| replaceafill | why do you want to zip them? | 18:30 |
| th1a | Just so it would be one downloadable file. | 18:31 |
| replaceafill | or maybe the problem is just: split the group report card in individual files? | 18:31 |
| th1a | Yes, essentially. | 18:31 |
| replaceafill | if the problem is that + having them zipped in one file | 18:31 |
| replaceafill | we have done that in cando | 18:31 |
| replaceafill | *that* would be a couple of days i guess | 18:32 |
| th1a | OK. | 18:32 |
| th1a | I really just needed to know if it would be "easy," as the non-programmers say. | 18:32 |
| replaceafill | it's not a no brainer, but we have parts of that system that already do that | 18:33 |
| th1a | OK. | 18:33 |
| th1a | Setting that aside. | 18:34 |
| th1a | I thought about the future and our proposal a bit. | 18:34 |
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| mandolincreekfar | i'm in the process of starting a new "rural/homestead living" school on my farm, and i am looking for a software platform to manage it | 19:07 |
| mandolincreekfar | i am a profession software engineer (24 years experience), so i have exceptionally high standards for such a package. | 19:08 |
| mandolincreekfar | (i meant to say "professional", but i might have mistyped it as "occasionally illiterate") | 19:09 |
| mandolincreekfar | anyway, i like what i see on the surface of schooltime: open source, written in python, well funded | 19:09 |
| mandolincreekfar | it looks like it will easily scale up to meet my strategic needs (an "outdoors school" of sorts) | 19:12 |
| mandolincreekfar | however, my immediate needs are for it to scale down; it almost looks like too much for a one man shop to use to get started. moreover, i worry it might be too complicated for users. | 19:15 |
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