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scheduled tasks

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How does the historic SEND flag work?

When a scheduled task is configured to exclude historic SEND data, the following steps are taken to determine whether a status is “historical”. The same approach is taken for both Needs and Statuses.

1. Gather all SEND data for a child from the API.
2. Sort the data from the latest to the oldest based on the start date (where present).
   For example:

   Start date	End date
   01/09/2024
   01/01/2024	31/08/2024
   01/09/2020

3. Check whether the next record has an end-date.
   The first time through this cycle, this is the second record.
   For example:

   Start date	End date	Historical?
   01/09/2024
   01/01/2024	31/08/2024	No
   01/09/2020

   1. If an end-date is present, it is not classed as “historical”
   2. If an end-date is not present, it is classed as “historical”
4. Repeat step 3 for each subsequent record.

   Start date	End date	Historical?
   01/09/2024
   01/01/2024	31/08/2024	No
   01/09/2020		Yes

The steps described as all performed before the data is added to the XML.