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  1. Ed-Fi Data Standard
  2. DATASTD-1857

Improve documentation on duration fields for StudentSchoolAttendanceEvent

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      This ticket is in reaction to EDFI-1908

      In summary: there are two different duration fields on StudentSchoolAttendanceEvent: eventDuration and schoolAttendanceDuration. The distinction between them is not very clear in the documentation.

      • eventDuration: The amount of time for the event as recognized by the school: 1 day = 1, 1/2 day = 0.5, 1/3 day = 0.33.
      • schoolAttendanceDuration: The duration in minutes of the school attendance event.

      I suppose the implication is that one tracks in days and the other in minutes. But why have both? Also, the latter is an integer, and the former a decimal value.

      Finally, the eventDuration strangely is limited to decimal(3,2), meaning that it has a range of -9.99 to 9.99 days. Can we plainly document somewhere - whether in the MetaEd Model & Handbook, or in the Tech Docs page for the attendance domain - this range, the significance of a negative number, and what to do if you need to record 10 days or more?

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