Improving internal report identifiers

[David Reiser]

On Jan 1, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:

> --On December 31, 2007 4:46:27 PM -0800 Andrew Sackville-West
> <andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> 3) how to handle the saved reports. specifically, how to get the user
>> to actually go in and fix the things -- do they need to edit the file
>> by hand? can they just resave the report and have it overwrite the  
>> old
>> one (ideal solution, but I don't think that works ATM)? can we
>> implement something to one-time-deal translate those reports into YA
>> saved-reports-2.2 file?
>
> If a saved report doesn't have an internal ID could you generate one  
> on
> the fly?
>
>       Mike

I'm pretty sure Hampton wrote code to create an ID on the fly for  
custom check formats. I would imagine it could be reused pretty easily.

Dave
--
David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net