Hello, all. In our SIG meeting last Friday, I spoke briefly about the work going on to support JIRA issue FOLIO-1519 (https://issues.folio.org/browse/FOLIO-1519), for creation of reference data (i.e., data that are referred to by other data -- for example user groups are referred to by users, so in order to create a full user record, a tenant needs to have some user groups defined) as well as sample data.

The approach that the core team is taking is to extend the tenant interface definition to allow a module to load reference data as part of the tenant initialization process. The reference data would reside with the module code (as it does already for several modules). The tenant interface would allow for the reference data not to be loaded, to allow tenants to decide if they would rather create their own set of reference data. This would eliminate the need for any extra scripting to put reference data into storage as part of standing up a system.

The response in the meeting was positive, but given how little time I had to collect feedback, we agreed that I would send out a note to give members a chance to respond. If you see problems with this approach, please feel free to respond to me or to the list. Thanks!

   wayne

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Wayne Schneider