[gold-users] allocation deactivations

[Scott Jackson]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 16:42 -0500, Kevin Van Workum wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> A question about how allocation deactivations work. After an
> allocation expires, Gold deactivates the allocation and creates a
> Transaction against that allocation with the Delta = -(Amount at time
> of expiration). I see this transaction when I do a glstxn -i ID.
> However, the amount in the allocation does not seem to be affected by
> this transaction. For example, below you can see the Deactivate at the
> end of the list of transactions, but the amount of allocation 241 is
> still -161150. It seems to me that it should be 0 rather than the
> amount at the time of expiration. Am I correct or just not
> understanding? 
> 
> Kevin
> 

Allocations may exist which are not currently active. Only active
allocations contribute towards a user's balance. For example, one can
create quarterly allocations for a year with each allocation being
active only during its respective quarter. Let's say we are in quarter
2. The quarter 3 and 4 allocations exist with positive balances, but
they are not active and do not count as credits yet. The quarter 1
allocation has expired and is no longer active. When we enter quarter 3,
quarter 2 will expire and quarter 3 will become active. This will be
seen as a debit for the amount of credits that expired as well as a
credit for the number of credits that became active.

So for your case, you had an allocation 241 that actually became
negative (contributing negatively towards people's balances). When it
expired, this negative allocation no longer contributed negatively
toward their balance, thus the Allocation Deactivation was seen as a net
credit. The allocation continues to exist with the negative balance, but
is no longer impinging against their balance. If, in the future, you
chose to reactivate that allocation (change the expiration time for
example), that negative balance would again impact the users' balances
and a debit would be recorded for the appropriate account in an
Allocation Activation event.

Make sense?

Scott

> [root at jman tmp]# glstxn -i 241
> Id     Object     Action     Name  JobId        Amount Delta  Account
> Project User Allocation Count Description 
> ------ ---------- ---------- ----- ------------ ------ ------ -------
> ------- ---- ---------- ----- ----------- 
> 184363 Account    Deposit    49                      0      0 49
> 241        1                 
> 184390 Job        Charge     36659 49030.jman      150   -150 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     STDIN       
> 184395 Job        Charge     36660 test.jman     10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     test        
> 184400 Job        Charge     36661 test.jman     10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     test        
> 184405 Job        Charge     36662 n583100.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583100     
> 184410 Job        Charge     36663 n583101.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583101     
> 184415 Job        Charge     36664 n583102.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583102     
> 184420 Job        Charge     36665 n583103.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583103     
> 184425 Job        Charge     36666 n583104.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583104     
> 184430 Job        Charge     36667 n583105.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583105     
> 184435 Job        Charge     36668 n583106.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583106     
> 184440 Job        Charge     36669 n583107.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583107     
> 184445 Job        Charge     36670 n583108.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583108     
> 184450 Job        Charge     36671 n583109.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583109     
> 184455 Job        Charge     36672 n583110.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583110     
> 184460 Job        Charge     36673 n583111.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583111     
> 184465 Job        Charge     36674 n583112.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583112     
> 184470 Job        Charge     36675 n583113.jman  10000 -10000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     n583113     
> 184478 Job        Charge     36676 49032.jman     1000  -1000 49
> vanw    vanw 241        1     STDIN       
> 184482 Allocation Deactivate 241                       161150 49
> 241        1
> 
> [root at jman tmp]# glsalloc -i 241
> Id  Account Active StartTime  EndTime             Amount  CreditLimit
> Deposited Description 
> --- ------- ------ ---------- ------------------- ------- -----------
> --------- ----------- 
> 241 49      False  2008-01-01 2008-01-03 15:50:00 -161150    36000000
> 0
> 
> 
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> Tsunamic Technologies Inc.
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