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 * Use your uppercase ORGCODE as shown on the upper right hand side of the IDEA page.Your organization cade is reported in bracket beside the "'''Logged in as'''" information.  * Use your uppercase ORGCODE as shown on the upper right hand side of the IDEA page.Your organization code is reported within brackets beside the "'''Logged in as'''" information.

README for CheckLinks.py

Updated: 2012-11-14

Information about the program:

CheckLinks.py will perform a series of checks in your format 202 link file to ensure that the data is all right. If no errors are detected then a zip file will be created. The zip file represents your checked links file ready to upload to the Interbull Centre IDEA database.

The checks relate to:

  • Record type: must be 202
  • Record length: must be 44
  • International identification numbers (first ID, second ID)
    • Correct three digit country code as in the ISO 3166 standard
    • Correct three digit breed code according to the Interbull breed codes

    • Allowed breed-country combination
      - see file CheckLinksAuth.txt (created by the program)

    • Correct construction of the numerical part of the ID (registration numbers, right justified, leading blanks as zeros)
    • UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU (19 U's) is only allowed for the second ID
  • Sex code of the two IDs (they must be the same and M or F)

Before Running the Program:

  1. Install Python (version 2.5 to 2.7) if necessary

  2. Create a working directory/folder

  3. Download the CheckLinks.py program from https://idea.interbull.org/software and copy it to your new directory

  4. Copy your pedigree link file to the working directory

Running the Program:

  • Ensure there is a working network connection

  • Use the command: python CheckLinks.py -m <ORGCODE> -f <filename>

  • Use your uppercase ORGCODE as shown on the upper right hand side of the IDEA page.Your organization code is reported within brackets beside the "Logged in as" information.

  • The program checks its internal version with the value stored on the Interbull server. You will have to download the most recent version if there is a mismatch.

After Running the Program:

If no errors are detected, the pedigree file will be written into a zip file called IB202-org_code-yyyymmddThhmmss.zip. Upload the zip file to Interbull's data exchange site https://idea.interbull.org/

In case of errors, no zip file will be created. Please correct your data and re-run the program until the data successfully pass all required checks.

A summary of errors is written to the file CheckLinksLog.txt.

All errors are listed in detail in the file called CheckLinksErrors.txt.

Note:

Please do not modify the program to circumvent any checks. Doing so would be pointless because the same checking routine is used again at the Interbull Centre to double-check the link file uploaded in the zip file.

If you need assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us at interbull@slu.se .

public/checklinks_python_instructions (last edited 2021-09-03 10:20:37 by Valentina)