Why do many archival_tag not have an id_code?

[peterdesmet]

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[jreubens]

If I'm correct archival tags never have an id_code, but only a serial. no distinction is made between both in archival tags

[PieterjanVerhelst]

Indeed, they don't send out an ID that can be picked up by a beacon. So there is only a serial number of the product, the archival tag.

[peterdesmet]

The archival.tags table does have an id_code field however and when populated, it is different from the serial number:

If that field does not make sense, it should be removed. It was confusing to me, because I implemented it as a parameter for get_archival_tags(archival_tag_id = "") (cf. get_acoustic_tags(acoustic_tag_id = ""))

[peterdesmet]

The field should stay, as it is used for acoustic archival tags. Model should likely be changed though, see #192. Moving issue to new milestone.

[peterdesmet]

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