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From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-03-24 12:52:01
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Greetings from Ireland, I only have a few minutes of computer/internet accesss here in dublin today, but will fully answer all questions when i get back on on tuesday/wednesday. As for the too-many-connections, this was not actually caused from too many connections, it was caused by a completely unrelated server issue (which temporarily prevented new connections from being opened) When you login to SFIAB, the database connection is opened, accessed, then immediately closed, it does not stay open for the duration of the login. The 15 or so regions using SFIAB on our server only cause about 1/200th of the total server usage, and about 1/500th of the total database usage. In order to max out the connections, it would require probably every judge, and every student across the 15 regions to hit the "login" button at exactly the same millisecond. Cheers, James On 3/19/2006, "Mariette Rains" <Mar...@ro...> wrote: >Hi James, all, >=20 >The SFIAB site is seeing too many hits this morning, more than it can handle= . Our 200 judges are probably causing a lot of this traffic, as they just rec= eived their invitation to self-register last night. >=20 >It's possible that some of them are not using the Logout link - although we = told them to log out in the instructions! >=20 >Perhaps the automatic time-out period should be shortened. You could also of= fer a big bold logout button at the top right of all 3 judge registration scr= eens so that it's easier to spot. And of course you're probably considering i= ncreasing the number of concurrent connections you can handle. All regional s= cience fairs will be registering judges about now, and registering participan= ts in late March. >=20 >Overall, though, we're pretty pleased with the process, it's worked very wel= l for us! >=20 >Mariette Rains >Science Timmins >=20 > > |
From: Patrick W. <pwh...@uw...> - 2006-03-20 11:26:23
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>Hello, The idea for a SFIAB WIKI site grew out of a discussion regarding a user's manual for SFIAB James has written a users manual here: http://www.sfiab.ca/docs/usermanual/ Since writing a users manual can take as much time as writing the program, we came up with the idea of having the users contribute to the manual, using the model of the on line encyclopaedia, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Record all your insights and work-rounds, so that this becomes a resource that covers all aspects of SFIAB. Best wishes, Pat Whippey Department: http://www.physics.uwo.ca Science Olympics: http://www.physics.uwo.ca/olympics/ Science Fair: http://www.physics.uwo.ca/sfair Team Canada: http://www.physics.uwo.ca/teamcana |
From: Patrick W. <pwh...@uw...> - 2006-03-20 11:11:16
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Hello SFIAB users, James is away this week in Ireland, so he wont be making any fixes until he returns on March 27th. He has set up a bug tracking system here: http://www.sfiab.ca/bugtracker Click on "View Issues" to see the existing list of requests. You can add your own comments to these. Click on "Report Issue" to enter a request for an update or a new feature. Please use this system for requesting bug fixes, and more importantly, suggestions for additional features. Sci-Tech Ontario is committed to making SFIAB so good that it will rapidly become the standard package for all science fairs. BUT The current round of funding will end in August 2006, so it is important that we collect all bug fixes and suggestions for additional features in this year's cycle of Regional Science Fairs. I have added about 30 requests for changes, most of which will be added over the summer. Please do review them and add your own. This is the best time to request your favourite set of features for SFIAB. Do help to make sure it works for your science fair At 07:01 PM 19-03-06 +0000, you wrote: >Hi James, all, > >The SFIAB site is seeing too many hits this morning, more than it can >handle. Our 200 judges are probably causing a lot of this traffic, as they >just received their invitation to self-register last night. > >It's possible that some of them are not using the Logout link - although >we told them to log out in the instructions! > >Perhaps the automatic time-out period should be shortened. You could also >offer a big bold logout button at the top right of all 3 judge >registration screens so that it's easier to spot. And of course you're >probably considering increasing the number of concurrent connections you >can handle. All regional science fairs will be registering judges about >now, and registering participants in late March. > >Overall, though, we're pretty pleased with the process, it's worked very >well for us! > >Mariette Rains >Science Timmins > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast >and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >sfiab-users mailing list >sfi...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sfiab-users Best wishes, Pat Whippey Department: http://www.physics.uwo.ca Science Olympics: http://www.physics.uwo.ca/olympics/ Science Fair: http://www.physics.uwo.ca/sfair Team Canada: http://www.physics.uwo.ca/teamcana |
From: Justin R. <web...@rc...> - 2006-03-19 20:30:56
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Hi, I'm not completely familiar with how James wrote SFIAB, but looking through the code quickly, it doesn't look like he's caching database connections between use. Given that, a connection is only being made whenever a user loads a page. So changing the automatic time-out length probably won't help any, since only active users will be making connections. As you said, increasing the max number of concurrent connections would be the only way to fix that problem. However, I also noticed that there were errors showing up on the SFIAB install for our regional fair, which isn't being run off of James' server. It appears that the counter at the bottom of the menus is being run by code on the main SFIAB site. I don't see why this is necessary, would it be possible to change this in the next update James? On Sun, 2006-19-03 at 19:01 +0000, Science Timmins - Judges Registrations wrote: > Hi James, all, > > The SFIAB site is seeing too many hits this morning, more than it can > handle. Our 200 judges are probably causing a lot of this traffic, as they > just received their invitation to self-register last night. > > It's possible that some of them are not using the Logout link - although > we told them to log out in the instructions! > > Perhaps the automatic time-out period should be shortened. You could also > offer a big bold logout button at the top right of all 3 judge > registration screens so that it's easier to spot. And of course you're > probably considering increasing the number of concurrent connections you > can handle. All regional science fairs will be registering judges about > now, and registering participants in late March. > > Overall, though, we're pretty pleased with the process, it's worked very > well for us! > > Mariette Rains > Science Timmins > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > sfiab-users mailing list > sfi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sfiab-users > -- Justin Reardon RCRSF Webmaster www.rcrsf.ca |
From: Science T. - J. R. <jud...@sc...> - 2006-03-19 19:02:06
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Hi James, all, The SFIAB site is seeing too many hits this morning, more than it can handle. Our 200 judges are probably causing a lot of this traffic, as they just received their invitation to self-register last night. It's possible that some of them are not using the Logout link - although we told them to log out in the instructions! Perhaps the automatic time-out period should be shortened. You could also offer a big bold logout button at the top right of all 3 judge registration screens so that it's easier to spot. And of course you're probably considering increasing the number of concurrent connections you can handle. All regional science fairs will be registering judges about now, and registering participants in late March. Overall, though, we're pretty pleased with the process, it's worked very well for us! Mariette Rains Science Timmins |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-03-16 02:01:13
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Hi everyone, Please continue to use the bugtracker to submit and track bug and feature request reports. http://www.sfiab.ca/bugtracker I've added a new feature to the SFIAB website : a sfiab wiki. For those of you that arent familiar with what a wiki is, well, its basically a website like any other, except you, yes, you, the website _user_ has access to add/edit the content of the website. http://www.sfiab.ca/wiki Have something you'd like to share with everyone? some tweak you made to make things run smoother? a frequently asked question that you think others might benefit from? post it on the wiki! I havent put much information up on the wiki yet, because i just set it up... but feel free to start adding stuff to it, and it can always be re-arranged at a later time. (side-note: 'adding' content is a bit counter-intuitive... you need to first SEARCH for the name of the page that you want, and when it doesnt find it, it will give you an option to create it instead.... once its created, make sure you go back to the Main Page, and add a link to your new page....) i promise its not as complicated as it seems, and if you happen to mess something up, it can always be undone! But.... Now for the kicker... Please put your rotten tomatoes away... I'm heading off for a VACATION tomorrow evening, and i wont be back until the 27th of march. Now, I understand that this is prime time for the science fair season, but i assure you, i'll take care of all of your emails, bugreports, etc when I get back! I've checked the ysf site and the sci-tech ontario site, and most of the fairs are the first or second weekends in april, so after i get back we've still got a few days to a few weeks before your fairs :) Lay on the emails and bug reports, and ill sift through them in priority order, i promise! If you start to panic.... remember... breathing is your friend. stand up, take a deep breath, and say "james will take care of it when he gets back" :) However -- I encourage you all to NOT EMAIL ME DIRECTLY, email this list instead! (sfi...@li... and sfi...@li...) if you email this list a question, and someone from another region has the answer, then voila! no need to wait for me! Some of you are experts now using SFIAB, so please, if you can answer someones question, go for it! If anything is extremely urgent / emergency, I will have my business phone line forwarded to my brother (Dave) who will attempt to rectify the situation.... please note: he's in Vancouver, so dont call him at 8:30AM eastern time, like some of you call me :) Thats all! good luck, talk to you all in a few weeks! James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-03-06 14:34:52
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please ignore :) James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-02-27 15:47:11
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Currently in a PDF table, if the text doesnt fit in the table cell, it cuts it off and adds a "..." to the bottom-right corner of the box... making it 'word wrap' (and thus, change the vertical height of the row), gets a bit tricky.. The report files look simple, but thats because all the 'hard work' is done in the lpdf.php class that i wrote for this task... i might take a look into it, but no guarantees i'll be able to do it. Can you open a feature request ticket in the bugtracker? http://www.sfiab.ca/bugtracker Cheers, James On Sunday 26 February 2006 9:00 pm, Mike Reardon wrote: > James, > > > > I noticed tonight that the Project Details PDF document do not display long > Project titles. Some project names can be quite long as you know. Can you > change this form to fit any length of title? > > > > Mike Reardon > > Co-Chair & Trillium Fund Coordinator > > Renfrew County Regional Science Fair > > Cell 613-639-4329 -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: Mike R. <mik...@rc...> - 2006-02-27 02:00:59
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James, I noticed tonight that the Project Details PDF document do not display long Project titles. Some project names can be quite long as you know. Can you change this form to fit any length of title? Mike Reardon Co-Chair & Trillium Fund Coordinator Renfrew County Regional Science Fair Cell 613-639-4329 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-02-24 19:11:04
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Hi everyone, I've today packaged and released SFIAB 1.0.4. It contains one critical bugfix when using "invite" or "schoolpassword" participant registration types. It also contains one big new feature, which allows setting the text that is displayed on the exhibitor signature pdf page, and also allows disabling sections of that file if they arent required. here's the notes that i put in the CHANGES file: 1.0.2 to 1.0.4 Check for valid email addresses before sending an email Add a judges list to the judges admin page, allowing removing judges Fix a bug where participant school was not being set for invite or schoolpassword types Convert signature page to be database driven, and allow it to be modified. -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-02-07 21:25:22
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Hi everyone, I've just packaged up and updated everyones installation of SFIAB to v1.0.2 .. it contains several bugfixes, as well as a new feature to not require students personal information to be collected. (eg if your school board doesnt want students personal info on servers outside of their control) Cheers, James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-02-02 04:08:56
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Hi everyone, im pleased to announce SFIAB v1.0.0 New features/changes/fixes in this version include: 0.9.8 to 1.0.0 Completed the automated judging scheduler, it now schedules the projects to the teams in available timeslots Add feature to have different divisions for each age category Add feature to exclude awards / prizes from awards ceremony script Allow setting minimum grade = 0 to account for kindergarden participants Auto-set the min/max years in the student Date of Birth selector based on the range of grades Add feature to support school district and school boards in the schools manager When choosing winners for special awards, if special award nominations are not used, simply show all eligible student s instead of those who nominated Many many many bugfix / usability fixes Fix the layout in MS Internet Explorer (Inept Exploder) Also there is preliminary documentation/user manual available online at: http://www.sfiab.ca/docs/usermanual This is expected to be the final 'new feature' release of the science fair season... new 'bug fix' releases/patches might be done over the next month or two if needed. If you are hosted with Lightbox Technologies, we have updated all of your installations to this latest version, if you are hosting on your own server, you are strongly encouraged to download and install the new version as soon as possible. Cheers, James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: Mike R. <mik...@rc...> - 2006-02-02 03:44:40
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James, We had a look at the subject form to see if there was an easy to change some of the text but found it was all hard coded in "register_participants_signature.php", We have changed it know but when we install a new version our changes will be lost. Is it possible to use the database to store text for these forms and have a method of editing it easily, maybe in a similar fashion as we edit the text in the e-mail. Mike Reardon Co-Chair & Trillium Fund Coordinator Renfrew County Regional Science Fair Cell 613-639-4329 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-02-02 03:25:45
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Hi Mike, The 'registered participants are posted on the website' is, or, was, supposed to be when a list of particpants would be posted on the website, before the fair, in order for participants to makes sure that they were officially 'registered'... however now that you mention it, this feature was never implemented as most regions i discussed it with figured they wouldnt use it. The "winners are posted on the website" link is definitely used, this will show all of the winners of all of the awards on the "Winners" page, on the predefined date/time... this will of course only work if you enter all the winning projects into the Admin section "Enter Winning Projects" (the awards ceremony script also relies on these to be entered). I will add your fair to the list :) Cheers, James On Wednesday 01 February 2006 7:18 pm, Mike Reardon wrote: > Hi James, > > > > In the Important dates configuration section what are the "Registered > participants are posted on the website" And the "Winners are posted on the > website" settings for? Also on your SFIAB site you have a list of fair that > are using the system, you can add us as we will be using a good part of the > system for this years fair. > > > > Mike Reardon > > Co-Chair & Trillium Fund Coordinator > > Renfrew County Regional Science Fair > > Cell 613-639-4329 -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: Mike R. <mik...@rc...> - 2006-02-02 00:18:19
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Hi James, In the Important dates configuration section what are the "Registered participants are posted on the website" And the "Winners are posted on the website" settings for? Also on your SFIAB site you have a list of fair that are using the system, you can add us as we will be using a good part of the system for this years fair. Mike Reardon Co-Chair & Trillium Fund Coordinator Renfrew County Regional Science Fair Cell 613-639-4329 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-01-24 14:41:17
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Hi everyone, I'm sure everyone is working hard these days preparing for their fairs, i'd like to get a bit of input from everyone on one major aspect of the SFIAB projects -- the "Reports" that it generates. There are quite a few 'core' reports already created by the system, however im sure there is a lot more information that you would find useful to have reports on while running your fairs.... I've tried as best I can to think of most reports that people need, but what i'd love to see from everyone is a list of reports that _you_ think you'll need that isnt currently in the system. Creating a report takes me all of about 20-30 minutes, and I'd much prefer to be creating the reports now, rather than on April 1st/8th. So please take a look at what reports SFIAB is capable of producing now, and let me know what you think is missing.. here are a few that I have already. - Individual project summary - all deals about the project, including mentors, 1 project per page. - Report of winners per school, one school per page (maybe in a 'letter' format that could be sent directly to the schools) - Report of all of the awards/prizes, without the winners. Cheers, James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-01-20 20:23:12
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Hi everyone, version 0.9.8 is released today. major changes include: -------------------------------------------------- Fixed a bug that stopped the registration number from being sent to participants Add the Translation manager to update translations into different languages Implement limiting of number of participants per school if the registration type is "invite" Update the school's participant inviter system to be much more robust Add configuration option to disable the T-Shirt size question --------------------------------------------------- Cheers, James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-01-20 19:39:53
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Hi everyone, As some of you have noticed... there is a pretty big bug in the participant registration... it seems the registration number wasnt being sent in the initial email... i've found and fixed the bug now, and i'll package up a new version and update everyones version thats running on our server as soon as possible.. There's been a few other changes since last weekend that will be useful aswell. By the end of this weekend everyone should be updated with the latest. Cheers, James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-01-17 16:32:15
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Thanks for the info.. It would simply be a field in the "school editor" that you specify the number for each and every school (with an option to set ALL schools to the same number). The biggest question her is whether i should have the option to limit by students? or just set it up to allow limiting by projects. Cheers, James On Monday 16 January 2006 7:39 pm, Michael Ash wrote: > Hi James > > We limit by number of projects but we also reserve the right to allow more > projects from a particular school if space allows. Be sure to include > some type of manual override. > > Michael Ash > > > James Grant <ja...@li...> on Monday, January 16, 2006 at 5:32 PM > > -0500 wrote: > >Hi everyone, > > I'm working on implementing the 'restrict number of registrations per > >school' > >feature... just curious how many situations the system needs to adapt > >to... > > > >we (and i think any region ive specifically asked), limits the schools by > >the > >number of PROJECTS (not the number of STUDENTS).. does anyone limit > >school > >participation BY STUDENTS? or does everyone do it BY PROJECT? > > > >eg) 10 PROJECTS per SCHOOL total > > 10 STUDENTS per SCHOOL total > > > >also, does anyone limit based on other criteria, such as BY AGE CATEGORY? > > > > 5 PROJECTS per SCHOOL per AGE CATEGORY > > > >or by DIVISION? > > > > 5 PROJECTS per SCHOOL per DIVISION > > > > > >Im just trying to wrap my head around the best way of implementing this... > > > >Thanks! > > james > > > > > > > >-- > >James Grant > >Lightbox Technologies Inc. > >http://www.lightbox.org > >613-294-3670 > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > >files > >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > >_______________________________________________ > >sfiab-users mailing list > >sfi...@li... > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sfiab-users > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > sfiab-users mailing list > sfi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sfiab-users -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: Michael A. <ma...@fc...> - 2006-01-17 00:35:55
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Hi James We limit by number of projects but we also reserve the right to allow more projects from a particular school if space allows. Be sure to include some type of manual override. Michael Ash James Grant <ja...@li...> on Monday, January 16, 2006 at 5:32 PM -0500 wrote: >Hi everyone, > I'm working on implementing the 'restrict number of registrations per >school' >feature... just curious how many situations the system needs to adapt >to... > >we (and i think any region ive specifically asked), limits the schools by >the >number of PROJECTS (not the number of STUDENTS).. does anyone limit >school >participation BY STUDENTS? or does everyone do it BY PROJECT? > >eg) 10 PROJECTS per SCHOOL total > 10 STUDENTS per SCHOOL total > >also, does anyone limit based on other criteria, such as BY AGE CATEGORY? > > 5 PROJECTS per SCHOOL per AGE CATEGORY > >or by DIVISION? > > 5 PROJECTS per SCHOOL per DIVISION > > >Im just trying to wrap my head around the best way of implementing this... > >Thanks! > james > > > >-- >James Grant >Lightbox Technologies Inc. >http://www.lightbox.org >613-294-3670 > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log >files >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click >_______________________________________________ >sfiab-users mailing list >sfi...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sfiab-users > |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-01-16 22:33:20
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Hi everyone, I'm working on implementing the 'restrict number of registrations per school' feature... just curious how many situations the system needs to adapt to... we (and i think any region ive specifically asked), limits the schools by the number of PROJECTS (not the number of STUDENTS).. does anyone limit school participation BY STUDENTS? or does everyone do it BY PROJECT? eg) 10 PROJECTS per SCHOOL total 10 STUDENTS per SCHOOL total also, does anyone limit based on other criteria, such as BY AGE CATEGORY? 5 PROJECTS per SCHOOL per AGE CATEGORY or by DIVISION? 5 PROJECTS per SCHOOL per DIVISION Im just trying to wrap my head around the best way of implementing this... Thanks! james -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-01-16 06:01:45
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Hi everyone, I've just finished packaging version 0.9.6 consisting of all the new features and bug fixes over the past month or so. Anyone who's hosting their SFIAB with us this year has now been automatically updated to to the newest version. If you are hosting the project on your own servers, please download and update! Download available here: http://www.sfiab.ca/download.php Here's a brief summary of the changes/updates: 0.9.4 to 0.9.6 Some typo bug fixes in emails and page texts Implement the judges 'resend password' function Allow creation of 'default prize templates' for awards to use Automatic Judging scheduler and judges team project assignments - THIS IS NOT COMPLETE/FINISHED YET, only use for testing! - Team assignments work, but not taking all parameters into account yet - Schedule is created, but not updated in database Automatic Creating of All Divisional Awards based on the default prize template Add 'required field' stars to both participant and judges registration pages Many other small changes and bugfixes Cheers, James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |
From: Michael A. <ma...@fc...> - 2006-01-12 20:49:22
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Okay, I must have missed something else when we filled out the form because it showed up as incomplete. I will review that process again. James Grant <ja...@li...> on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 1:17 PM -0500 wrote: >On Tuesday 10 January 2006 11:49 am, Michael Ash wrote: >> James et al > >> 2. The emergency contact information requires an email address - is >there >> any way to may this optional? We still have some people without email >> addresses in rural Ont. > >Actually i just checked... email address is not required. > > >$required_fields=array("firstname","lastname","relation","phone1"); > >Cheers, > James > > > >-- >James Grant >Lightbox Technologies Inc. >http://www.lightbox.org >613-294-3670 > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log >files >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click >_______________________________________________ >sfiab-users mailing list >sfi...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sfiab-users > |
From: Michael A. <ma...@fc...> - 2006-01-12 20:48:34
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James Grant <ja...@li...> on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 12:59 PM -0500 wrote: >On Tuesday 10 January 2006 11:49 am, Michael Ash wrote: >> James et al >> >> I apologize if these questions have already been asked/answered - I was >> unable to access the archived postings on the listserve website. >> >> 1. When we tried a "dumby" (that may reflect on the person doing the >> testing) participant registration the return email did not contain a >> registration number - it only had a "^" symbol. What did we do wrong? >> When we logged in to see the list of registrants we saw the registration >> number and were able to finish the process. > >Did you change the contents of the "new_participant" email that gets sent >out ? the "field" that must exist in the email contents that gets >replaced >with the actual registration number is [REGNUM] Not that we know of - I will check. > > >> 2. The emergency contact information requires an email address - is >there >> any way to may this optional? We still have some people without email >> addresses in rural Ont. > >I think this would be a good change to make globally... i'll do that for >the >next version. thanks > >> 3. How do we delete a participant registration? We have looked over all >> of the options but we cannot see that one. > >There is currently no way to delete a registration, without doing it >directly >in the database. the thought was that even if there are 'bogus' >registrants, >only those marked as 'complete' (the ones that the forms/signatures get >received) will be used in the fair. if a registration is not 'complete' >it >will simply be ignored. Perhaps a good method would be to add a new >'status' >to registrations, called "deleted" which would essentially "soft-delete" >the >registration... > >out of curiosity, how did you arrive at the situation that you need to >delete >a user? is it a test user that you registered and now want to clear it >out >for 'real' registration? ... i'll see what I can do about a delete >mechanism..... Yep, it was a test. > >Cheers, > James > > > > >> Thanks in advance for the replies to this inquiry. >> >> Michael Ash >> Principal >> Avon Maitland Distance Education Centre >> 62 Chalk St. N. >> Seaforth, ON >> N0K 1W0 >> >> tel (519) 527-0111, ext 120 >> toll free 1-800-592-5437 >> fax (519) 527-0607 >> ma...@fc... >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> Notice of Confidentiality >> This transmission contains information that may be confidential and that >> may also be privileged. You may not copy, forward, or otherwise use it, >or >> disclose its contents to anyone else, without the permission of the >> sender. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify >the >> sender immediately and delete it from your system. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log >> files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that >makes >> searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >> http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click >> _______________________________________________ >> sfiab-users mailing list >> sfi...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sfiab-users > >-- >James Grant >Lightbox Technologies Inc. >http://www.lightbox.org >613-294-3670 > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log >files >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click >_______________________________________________ >sfiab-users mailing list >sfi...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sfiab-users > |
From: James G. <ja...@li...> - 2006-01-11 18:18:36
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On Tuesday 10 January 2006 11:49 am, Michael Ash wrote: > James et al > 2. The emergency contact information requires an email address - is there > any way to may this optional? We still have some people without email > addresses in rural Ont. Actually i just checked... email address is not required. $required_fields=array("firstname","lastname","relation","phone1"); Cheers, James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 |