On 03/09/13 01:35 -0700, Kaushik S wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 1:20:59 PM UTC+5:30, Cédric Krier wrote:
> >
> > On 03/09/13 00:28 -0700, Kaushik S wrote: 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 12:13:28 PM UTC+5:30, Cédric Krier wrote: 
> > > > 
> >  > This is for GNU Health, hospital management. The database table has a 
> > list 
> > > of people with their address and phone numbers.  This is a privileged 
> > list. 
> > > These are people who would have 'some' free access to the hospital.     
> > The 
> > > hospital has its own database of all the patients. Some of these 
> > patients 
> > > will be from the privileged list.  Sometimes existing patients might go 
> > on 
> > > the privileged list.   Whenever a new entry has been added to the 
> > > privileged list or an existing patient goes on the privileged list, we 
> > need 
> > > to update our records so that billing etc happens correctly.   I do not 
> > > wish to spend so much resource checking every 1 or 2 minutes.  But, I 
> > > wouldn't want any human intervention and it should all happen 
> > > automatically.  *I am open to any suggestion that is a Tryton way of 
> > doing 
> > > this. It doesn't have to be cron. * 
> > > 
> > > There is a delete in the privileged list but it happens very very 
> > rarely.   
> > > When a delete happens, there is a delete flag that is turned on. You are 
> > > right, there is indeed the delete case.     
> > > 
> > > *Perhaps the ideal way to do this is to have an external daemon that 
> > > maintains a connection to the database and constantly polls looking for 
> > > additions and deletions.   * 
> > > 
> > > *Alternatively, we could just decide to do this manually. This 
> > possibility 
> > > is not ruled out. *   
> > > 
> > > However, purely from the technical point of view I would like to know 
> > the 
> > > options available and how you would do this. Is this is a rare scenario 
> > for 
> > > ERP where you have to constantly poll for changes in an external 
> > database? 
> > > If that is so, please let us know.  I have not worked with ERP before. 
> >
> > Polling shoud always be the last solution. 
> > From your example, I think I will write a Function field on the patient 
> > that will read the value in the other DB. I guess the cost of such read 
> > on the fly is not too high. 
> >
> >  
> >  
> 
> ok, thanks. That would be the way to go for the delete case alone.  
> 
> But when a new entry has been added to the externalDB.privileged_list, 
> there will be no existing patient. So, we can't do the same. 

But how could you get patient to invoice that is not recorded as
patient?

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