[thelist] dummy data, demo sites

[Asif Suria]

Dan,

If possible, add a status field to your data and store
a tag in that field like 'D' or 'R' where 'D'
represents dummy data and 'R' represents real or live
data. On the display side, do a check to see if the
status field returns 'D' and if it does print out
something like 

** Test Data **

This may also help keep dummy data from being mistaken
as real data in the future. I am sure there are a ton
of other approaches that could be utilized as well.

Asif
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--- Dan McCullough <dan.mccullough at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm rolling out a demo product for a customer, and
> we have put in
> about 1800 row of dummy data, pretty good data but
> dummy nonetheless. 
> How do you guys deal with warnings and letting
> people know that the
> data is dummy and therefore some things wont jive
> because its not the
> real thing.
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