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Is SFIAB going to be using barcodes in their reports? Where, when and what
will they identify?

Scott Berry

Hello,

This appears to be a bug that has crept in with the introduction of 
code to better manage multiple roles.

I have issued  bug report #430 on the bug tracker here:
http://bugtracker.sfiab.ca/view_all_bug_page.php

A similar bug was identified in bug report 426.
This was assigned to Dave Grant to fix on 7 January 2010.

A work-round, which I will use in London if the need arises is to 
create a new email address for the judge like this: 
pet...@ls..., and then forward email sent to this address to 
his real address.
I will then use this new email address to register him as a committee member.

>Hello,
>
>I have a judge that also wants to work on the organizing committee, 
>but I can't figure out how to just add him in as a committee 
>member.  I know this is possible, because I see that we have other 
>members that have multiple roles.
>
>Any help is very much appreciated.  Thank you.
>
>Charles Cuell
>Research Scientist
>Aquatic Ecosystems Impacts Research Division
>Environment Canada
>(306) 975-6374
>
>
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Best wishes, Pat Whippey

Hello, 

I have a judge that also wants to work on the organizing committee, but
I can't figure out how to just add him in as a committee member.  I know
this is possible, because I see that we have other members that have
multiple roles.

Any help is very much appreciated.  Thank you.

Charles Cuell
Research Scientist
Aquatic Ecosystems Impacts Research Division
Environment Canada
(306) 975-6374

Hi everyone, 
With back-to-school upon us, I figured it was time to give a sneak preview of 
some of the new features being added to SFIAB over the summer.  Full Content 
Management, Themable CSS/Icons, Re-worked admin/config pages and Localization 
settings.. plus much much more.

Everyone on http://secure.ysf-fsj.ca/sfiab/yourfair has now been updated - login 
and check it out :)

Everyone on http://www.sfiab.com has now been updated - login and check it out 
:)

If you host it on your own, download the new version from 
http://www.sfiab.ca/download.php

Here's the full CHANGES log

2.1.8-r2 to 2.2.0 (September 2, 2008)
Many minor bug fixes
Add countries table and update provinces table to contain a country code
Import list of countries to countries table
Import list of the states for USA into provinces table
Add full Content Management ability to create/modify/update any custom pages 
within SFIAB (eliminates the need to maintain a separate website for your 
fair!)
Add config option for Province/State and Postal Code/Zip Code and update all 
places to use them
Add first aid & cpr fields for data collection of committee/volunteers
Add theme support for CSS and admin/config icons
Fix some registration list counts to be more accurate
Always show school's city in school access login
Properly reset scheduler status and add scheduler status/percent to config if 
required
Ignore unassigned jdiv's in the judge scheduler
Add config for name pronunciation key in awards ceremony script
Add config to filter awards ceremony script by age category
Fix extra-long headings in PDF reports (now headings can wrap)
Fix check min/max project summary counts when required for project 
completeness
Fix handle min word count =0 (wordcount becomes non-required field)
Fix check name check status when required for registration completeness
Add a way to unregister projects that have been previously input and marked as 
registered (just enter the regnum again)
Add medic alert and food requirements info to student reports
Add a new report option, splitting label_box into label_box and field_box
Add option to filter awards management interface by sponsor status (any, 
confirmed only, unconfirmed only)
Rework the jdiv entry page to be cleaner if all jdiv's have been assigned
Fix missing i18n's on school access page
Disable school feedback form until they enter an email address and update the 
email headers so reply-to works
Fix detection of "assigned" vs "unassigned" judges with discrepencies in multi-
year data
Display award errors if at least one age category and one divsion are not 
selected
Fix namecheck for multiple students on the same project
Fix judge team number auto-creation to disregard previous years team numbers
Fix a judge team creation error with apostrophe's in the team name
Fix a bug where the scheduler was allowing deleted judges to be scheduled
Fix a bug causing multiple SFIABSESSION cookies to be set for different paths
Update student tour annealer to be a bit smarter (handle students that dont 
choose tours better)
Allow admin to change project sort field as well as the project number field in 
the project editor
Fix 1x4 and 1x1.333 Avery stock to print properly within the required margins
Show judge language on the judge team members list
Fix scheduler status for IE7 - http.readyState needs manual reset
Fix html entities in the translations editor (so you can <a href within a string)
Don't expire new user passwords on first login
Update install script to use firstname and lastname instead of "superuser 
account" for the initial user
Refactor and overhaul the password handling functions
Switch communication sending to be more portable (exec directly instead of 
using echo / at combination)
Import FCKEditor directly into codebase so it's always available, instead of 
optionally checking if its been manually installed
Enable the FCKeditor file browser and apply small patch to FCKEditor to set 
path's correctly using SFIAB's $config
Update page text's to be multi-lingual on the same page, and using FCKEditor
Add dateformat and timeformat to the Localization config variables tab (and move 
province/state and postal/zip there)
Switch some dates/times to use the new dateformat/timeformat functions
Move "index" page text into the Content Management System
Update page text editor to use full descriptions of the fields, instead of 
internal field names
Fix some rollover script sections due to newly added features
Fix a rollover script issue that was causing values to revert to defaults
Add some extra sanity checking to rollover script

-- 
James Grant

Lightbox Technologies
312-240 Catherine St.
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8

http://www.lightbox.org
ja...@li...
613-686-1661 x101

Version 2.1.8 is now released, with TONS of updates, bugfixes, and new 
features...

This should be the last MAJOR update of the season.

Also: Patrick Whippey has done an amazing job updating the wiki 
documentation -- if you need help, press the blue ? icon in the top right of 
any admin/config page, and you'll see all the help.. or visit 
http://www.sfiab.ca/wiki for complete docs.

Summary of changes below:

2.1.6 to 2.1.8 (January 11, 2008)
Fix a bug causing install3 script to FAIL due to existing config data
Add new recipients to communication module - school principals, school science 
heads, and teachers
Fix display of partner name field (first last)
Fix emergency contact headers in reports
Add 'total' option to report generator
Add report data and a system report for counting t-shirts of each size
Fix report generator grouping logic
Fix pagesize settings in all reports (which makes landscape reports work)
Fix icon path in table editor
Add maxlength support for text area's in tablee ditor
Add feature to project numbering for project sort order (so sorts can be 
different than the display value of the project number)
Add feature to project numbering system for non cat/div sequences (X), as well 
as the number of left-padded digits for sequences (eg. N5)
Several text/wording changes for clarity
Add feature to parse colum data in the report generator as its extracted from 
the database
Replace reports_acpresentation custom report with report generator version
Fix report editor to always have a report type
Fix report sorting if no sort field is specified
Add option to include registration fee info on signature page
Updates to 'important dates' page
Add participant name check page for students to double-check their name
Reorder/Rename some judge columns for clarity
Add option to better handle multi-year judge reports
Add project info, timeslots and students to the judge query
Add prize amounts to report editor
Fix ordering of links on judges main page
Add special award selection editor to judge manager
Fix judges and tours effort config to be a dropdown with 3 choices insetad of 
an integer input
Add config option to disable cash/scholarship amounts on public winners page
Add grade & school of each student to signature page
Update PDF logo image for proper scaling
Add option for regexp checking on user input fields
Fix password expiry mechanism to obey updates to the expiry days config option
Fix session variables cleanup on logout
Update the development version display in the footer
Add feature to whipe out and jdiv groupings and start from scratch 
Fix 'creating divisional awards' to obey filterdivisionsbycategory
Add prize value, and trophy info to default divisional awards template
Fix handling of type/stock for custom reports
Add extra 'dont run these' checks to all the /scripts files
Fix sorting on projects and judges list
Fix judge team division groupings to obey filterdivisionbycategory
Add tour reports - ALL tours for the committee, tour list for students, 
student emergency contact info for tour coordinators, and a list of tour 
assignments for students Add automatic tour assignments
Add tour assignment editor
Fix judges scheduler to launch correctly
Updates to config editor to handle more categories (vertical list, instead of 
horizontal)
Add option for minimum number of words in project description
Add option to omit unawarded awards/prizes from awards ceremony script
Add minimum size to config editor input size
Add primary contact field to award contacts & use in reports
Add sponsor information to the report generator awards report
Add sponsor info CSV report
Add a 'contact us' page to contact committee
Add new entries to page text editor to allow customizing some text blurbs
Fix ordering of judging team names
Add volunteer registraltion modes
Fixes/Updates to Avery templates
Config editor uses multiple checkboxes instead of multi-select
Much more detailed stats on registration list/statistics page
Sort school list using city-schoolname, instead of just schoolname
Fix a couple PDF issues

-- 
James Grant

Lightbox Technologies
312-240 Catherine St.
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8

http://www.lightbox.org
ja...@li...
613-686-1661 x101

Hi everyone, 2.1.6 is now released.  Anyone hosted under the YSF server 
(https://secure.ysf-fsj.ca/sfiab/yourfair) has now been updated.

This version has several critical bug fixes to 2.1.4, as well as a new report 
management feature that allows each committee member to maintain a list of 
reports that are relavent to themselves, while ignoring reports that they 
dont care about :)

Here's the CHANGE LOG

2.1.4 to 2.1.6 (Dec 12, 2007)
Fix multi-role accounts (so committee and volunteers can have one account with 
both roles)
Fix wording 'input received signature forms'
Fix error checking on judges teams timeslots assignments
Fix an potential infinite loop on PDF generation
Fix judge scheduler detection of more than one divisional award per 
division/category
Fix judge scheduler detection of existing divisional awards when 
filterdivisionbycategory is used
Fix email detection in isEmailAddress() (this was preventing the system from 
sending most emails!)
Refactor common AJAX code into a separate include file
Separate awards ceremony script generation to a separate page -- eventually 
it'll have options on that page
New report generation screen that lets you override the default format, stock 
and year of a report before its created
New 'my reports' report manager - each committee member can maintain their own 
list of reports applicable to them, sorted by categories
Add email address to new participant email, and send the new participant email 
to `emailcontact` if it exists
Fix judge special award signup if they've specified they are from a specific 
special award
Fix date of birth complete/incomplete for 0000-00-00 dates
Fix MySQL5 query on judging teams management page
Add school access codes report to report generator and remove custom report
Add more school fields to the report generator
Fix fairyear rollover of categories-divisions-links if 
filtercategoriesbydivision is used
Usability updates to award contacts & award sponsors pages

Cheers,
 James

-- 
James Grant

Lightbox Technologies
312-240 Catherine St.
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8

http://www.lightbox.org
ja...@li...
613-686-1661 x101

Hi everyone, just a quick note to say that SFIAB version 2.1.4 has now been 
released with TONS of new features and bugfixes.  Im anticipating that 2.1.4 
will be the last major feature release for this year's fair season, but im 
sure there'll be a couple minor bugfix updates over the next few months.

It is HIGHLY recommended that you upgrade whatever version you have to 2.1.4. 
The upgrade process is seamless -- download the package, uncompress the files 
overtop the files you have, and run the db/db_update.php script to update 
your database.

You can download SFIAB package from http://www.sfiab.ca/download.php

If you are running SFIAB under http://secure.ysf-fsj.ca/sfiab/yourfair then 
you've already been updated.

If you are still running SFIAB under http://www.sfiab.ca/yourfair then you 
have NOT been updated, you should login to the YSF Affiliation system and 
enable SFIAB.  

Here's the complete CHANGELOG for 2.1 branch:

2.1.2 to 2.1.4 (Dec 4, 2007)
Add ability to export reports that have been created so they can easily be 
shared
Add more school information columns to the report generator and add a new 
schools list report
Add CURL checks and give errors/warnings if its not there
Add external award winners postback (to resubmit the winners to wherever the 
awards came from)
Auto-create sponsors for downloaded awards
Add external award source downloader
Add external award source manager to manage the external award sources that 
awards can be downlaoded from
Add ability to configure display/require fields for users 
(committee/volunteer)
Add description to awards and add it to the awards ceremony script if it 
exists
Add trophy selection to award prizes (student keeper, student return, school 
keeper, school reteurn)
Add ability for future updates to 'built-in' reports
Fix wording for 'open or invite' registration type on schoolaccess page
Add new user management system and convert committee members and volunteers to 
use it
Fix logins for users with expired passwords
Add ability for DB update script to also run a PHP script before and/or after 
the DB script is run for the version
Add extra error checking for system() calls on install and update to prevent 
broken installs/updates when system() isnt allowed
Add datetime field support for tableeditor
Add volunteer registration, and volunteer job description management
Add sponsor organization to awards ceremony script
Add ability to generate awards ceremony scripts for only certain award types
Add ability to generate awards ceremony script for a previous year
Rename the SESSION variable cookie name to reduce the possibility of SESSION 
classes for multiple SFIAB installs running under the same domain.
Add more error checking on the image uploader
Fix PDF links with the broken Internet Explorer/SSL implementation
Allow 'username' to be used insetad of 'email address' for logins for users 
without email addresses
Fix wording for 'project_num_format' variable
Add a login/info bar to the header, and cookiecrumb trail for current location
Add judges 'invite only' screen to Page Texts editor
Add internal document manager for committee documents
Make tableeditor backwards compatible with single table (non OO/class based) 
editors
Use FCKEditor for HTML editor for Page Texts (if FCKEditor is found in 
the /fckeditor folder - needs to be installed manually)
Add 'committee members' as possible communication module recipients
Fix a project number uniqueness problem with multi-year data
Add ability to have multiple email recipients for a single project 
registration (eg teachers)
Replace all 'from' in emails with the FAIRMANAGER - make sure its set
Add emails to send students on 'registration complete' and 'registration 
payment pending'
Add award sponsor to winners entry page
Add ability for teacher to 'auto-login' as a student that they have already 
invited
Update emails to allow [FAIRNAME] to substitute in body of messages
Fix some MySQL report queries
Fix ambiguity in the term "# of prizes" vs "# awarded"
Rework judge management - judge list 'delete' unlinks from fairyear, judge 
manager 'delete' deletes completley
Fix logo display problem on /config and /admin
Add option to view reports from past years
Character encoding updates for MySQL 5.x
Add judge registration checks for when judge registration is not yet open
One-click YSF Affiliation Stats
Fix award nomination eligible award list for multi-year data
Fix school mailing labels in french
Fix config types/config values on rollover/install
Fix some register_globals on reliances, and add a .htaccess to disable 
register globals if possible

2.1.0 to 2.1.2 (Sep 20, 2007)
Fix a bug that prevented the rollover script from properly rolling over the 
award prizes.  
Add a temporary workaround script to re-roll the award prizes for anyone thats 
already done it.
Add school type report to report generator, so you can create labels for all 
schools

2.0.12 to 2.1.0 (Sep 11, 2007)
New custom report generator implementation and many, many defualt 
pre-programmed reports
Show 'Confirmed Participants' list when its appropriate to do so
Show link to Confirmed Participants list immediately after regclose, it will 
be empty with a notice as to when the list will be available
Add required registration fee to forms checkoff page
Add three new email recipients to communications module: special award 
sponsors (confirmed only, unconfirmed only and all)
Add 'none' as a tshirt option for the admin student editor
Implement hr and vspace in the CSV report generator
Auto-focus the input box on the input received forms page
In judges division groupings, only show the count of projects that are 
complete or paymentpending
Position project number absolutely on table labels, incase title wraps to two 
lines preventing the entire label from splitting pages
Add page numbers to PDF generated reports
Optional parameter to allow/disallow multi-line text fields in PDF reports
Fix a bug where the number of students on a project could be greater than the 
maximum
Clarification of "prize" field usage
Add special awards judging scheduler, creates judging teams for awards, 
assigns judges to special awards, obeys judges special awards preferences
Update the awards management interface, much more user friendly now
Fix a bug where the judge scheduler would have problems if there was 0 judge 
div groupings
Implement web consent restrictions, to allow firstname, lastname and photo to 
be prevented from being displayed on a per student basis on the public award 
winners page, and confirmed participants page.
Update tour selection reports
Fix an few places where we rely on register_globals to be on
Add option for winner selection page to show all ELIGIBLE projects for special 
awards, not just nominated ones (incase the winning project happens to be a 
proejct that didnt nominate for the award)
Updates to scheduler to ignore 'willing chair' for team size of 1
Fix a bug in the project title saving where quote marks were being requoted
Create a report with all info required for the sci-tech ontario winners 
submission
Fix a bug where exit() wasnt being called after a few header("Location:") 
redirects
Fix winners page to properly show multi-year data

-- 
James Grant

Lightbox Technologies
312-240 Catherine St.
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8

http://www.lightbox.org
ja...@li...
613-686-1661 x101

Patrick,

These instructions look pretty good but...

One of our biggest problems in Rural Ontario is some people simply do not
have email address or even internet access, yes that is a reality here. We
also have internet access problems in many of our schools as well, hotmail
is blocked as well as other free mail providers. Because we are not governed
by either of the school boards here, we do not get much support/sympathy
from there IT departments. So we have to use the open and invite method of
registering. But by doing this we have caused some confusion when the
teacher is asked to put in an email address.

I have submitted the following issue IDs in the bug tracker that identify
our problems/fixes with the part of the system:

0000131
0000132
0000133

Comments on these issues are welcome.

Mike Reardon
Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair.
RCRSF.ca 

-----Original Message-----
From: sfi...@li...
[mailto:sfi...@li...] On Behalf Of Patrick
Whippey
Sent: August 6, 2007 7:03 AM
To: sfiab Users Lists
Subject: [sfiab-users] SFIAB: Help for Participant Registration

Hello,

I have written a set of five help screens for "Participant 
Registration", one for each of the five possible methods that are available.

You can find these here:
http://www.physics.uwo.ca/sfair/sfiab/

Please take a look and let me have suggestions for improvement.

I will then post them to the bug tracker/new features system for 
future implementation.

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

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Hello,

I have written a set of five help screens for "Participant 
Registration", one for each of the five possible methods that are available.

You can find these here:
http://www.physics.uwo.ca/sfair/sfiab/

Please take a look and let me have suggestions for improvement.

I will then post them to the bug tracker/new features system for 
future implementation.

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

You need the info from YSF.. but actaully thats on my list of things to

'finish' ... the SFIAB side is done, but the YSF side is not.. im

going to finish that on monday, so i can use it for the ORSF

registration as well.  I'll also lookup your ysf id and password when

im in there getting ottawa's and let you know when its ready.

Cheers,

 James

On 4/1/2007, "Mike Reardon" <mik...@rc...> wrote:

>James

>

>

>

>After our fair yesterday I tried to use the one click CWSF registration and

>it wants a YSF ID and password. Is this not the same as my YSF login name

>and password? Or do I need to get a something different from YSF?

>

>

>

>Mike Reardon

>

>Chairperson

>

>Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair

>

>Phone: 613-639-4329

>

> <http://www.rcrsf.ca/> www.rcrsf.ca

>

>

>

>Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair Mission statement

>

>

>

>"To strive to provide an avenue for students to showcase their scientific

>ideas and technological innovations in a competitive environment."

>

>

>

>

>

>cid:image002.jpg@01C6854D.ED32E730

>

>

>

>

>

Yea I guess we should add a status for 'noshow' to the registrations

table.... can you create a bug-report for that in the bugtracker so it

doesnt get forgotten about?

James

On 4/1/2007, "Mike Reardon" <mik...@rc...> wrote:

>James,

>

>

>

>We had 15 no shows in our fair after registration was finished. I know I

>could just delete them so they don't get accidentally selected for an award.

>But it would be nice to keep them in the list of participants and mark them

>as no shows making them ineligible for awards thus allowing us to track the

>number of no shows from fair to fair.

>

>

>

>

>

>Mike Reardon

>

>Chairperson

>

>Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair

>

>Phone: 613-639-4329

>

> <http://www.rcrsf.ca/> www.rcrsf.ca

>

>

>

>Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair Mission statement

>

>

>

>"To strive to provide an avenue for students to showcase their scientific

>ideas and technological innovations in a competitive environment."

>

>

>

>

>

>cid:image002.jpg@01C6854D.ED32E730

>

>

>

>

>

Or) they can simply delete the invite and re-invite using something else (much 
easier!)

James

On March 19, 2007 07:51:58 pm Mike Reardon wrote:
> James,
>
>
>
> We have some users that have been invited by their school to enter our
> fair, instead of using email addresses, because they don't have one, they
> are using the person's name. In one case the name has an apostrophe in it
> and because of this the student cannot login. When the student attempts to
> login the following error is displayed, The email address you entered
> (Brittany O\'Connor) appears to be invalid. You must use a proper email
> address in order to create an account.
>
>
>
> Can you fix this problem please?
>
>
>
> Mike Reardon
>
> Chairperson
>
> Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair
>
> Phone: 613-639-4329
>
>  <http://www.rcrsf.ca/> www.rcrsf.ca
>
>
>
> Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair Mission statement
>
>
>
> "To strive to provide an avenue for students to showcase their scientific
> ideas and technological innovations in a competitive environment."
>
>
>
>
>
> cid:image002.jpg@01C6854D.ED32E730

-- 
James Grant

Lightbox Technologies
312-240 Catherine St.
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8

http://www.lightbox.org
ja...@li...
613-686-1661 x101

Hmm... yes because it validates a proper email address, i dont think it has 
anything to do with the apostrophe, but rather the entire email regular 
expression:

ie)   '[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4})'

it must be the form a@b.cc

eg) britany@school.one

I thought it also does the check when they do the inviting... maybe i missed 
that part...  for this year I can edit your code adn remvoe the regular 
expression check on the email address, and we can address it properly for 
next year?

James

On March 19, 2007 07:51:58 pm Mike Reardon wrote:
> James,
>
>
>
> We have some users that have been invited by their school to enter our
> fair, instead of using email addresses, because they don't have one, they
> are using the person's name. In one case the name has an apostrophe in it
> and because of this the student cannot login. When the student attempts to
> login the following error is displayed, The email address you entered
> (Brittany O\'Connor) appears to be invalid. You must use a proper email
> address in order to create an account.
>
>
>
> Can you fix this problem please?
>
>
>
> Mike Reardon
>
> Chairperson
>
> Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair
>
> Phone: 613-639-4329
>
>  <http://www.rcrsf.ca/> www.rcrsf.ca
>
>
>
> Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair Mission statement
>
>
>
> "To strive to provide an avenue for students to showcase their scientific
> ideas and technological innovations in a competitive environment."
>
>
>
>
>
> cid:image002.jpg@01C6854D.ED32E730

-- 
James Grant

Lightbox Technologies
312-240 Catherine St.
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8

http://www.lightbox.org
ja...@li...
613-686-1661 x101

James,

Agreed the A4 US letter issue is mine, just wanted to point out what I
found, once I change my default to US letter all is good with the lapels. 

Having a option to pick how many will be useful but I understand it will not
happen for this year. I think Justin is just about finished his project so
maybe I will put him to work. On this and the boarders that are in the name
tags.

And yes not sure what happened there but the Presenters name now appears in
the awards script, thanks.

Mike Reardon
www.rcrsf.ca  

-----Original Message-----
From: James Grant [mailto:ja...@li...] 
Sent: March 5, 2007 10:17 AM
To: sfi...@li...
Cc: Mike Reardon
Subject: Re: [sfiab-users] Name Tags, Judging lables & Awards Ceremony
Script

On March 3, 2007 11:00:00 am Mike Reardon wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the Judging labels they seem to work but if you print 
> direct from sfiab they do not line up on a 1x4 standard label. You 
> have to save it first and then make sure that when you open it with 
> adobe and go to print setup and set page size to Letter not A4. I only 
> had to do this once and now everything seems ok.

This is a problem on your computer then, the default should always be US
Letter, not A4.. i dont think i've ever seen an A4 paper in real life.

> One thing that would be good is we need 3 labels per project, yes I 
> could just print 3 copies of the PDF but it would be better if the 3 
> were all together, can you make this happen for me please.

Since every fair would require different numbers, its best to just print
however many you need... some fairs will only need 1, some will need up to
5.. i guess it could be an option "how many do you want per project" but
thats not going to be done for this years fair unless you or justin can
implement it.

> On the name tags the boarder that gets printed is not 3x4 and does not 
> fit on a Avery name tag that is 3x4. When you take the name tags apart 
> you end up with black lines on two or three sides of the name tag, 
> never 4.  Can you remove the boarder please. The text fits fine in the 
> 3x4 space of the tag.

Hmm maybe removing that border is the way to go... I originally had the
borders turned on because we always printed on normal paper than cut htem
out, instead of pritning on the real card stock.. so i guess the border
should be made into an option as well, again, probably wont happen for this
years fairs...

>
> I think in the last patch or two ago you said you fixed the Awards 
> Ceremony Script, adding the Presenters name, it still does not appear. 
> Is that because the Awards are not awarded yet and when they are the 
> presenters name will magically appear??

No the presenter will be there if you've specified a presenter in the awards
section for that award, otherwise the whole line is left out (ie, "Presented
By:" never shows up unless there's a name to put after it)

See attached.

James

>
>
> I hope I am not too late for
>
>
>
> Mike Reardon
>
> Chairperson
>
> Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair
>
> Phone: 613-639-4329
>
>  <http://www.rcrsf.ca/> www.rcrsf.ca
>
>
>
> Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair Mission statement
>
>
>
> "To strive to provide an avenue for students to showcase their 
> scientific ideas and technological innovations in a competitive
environment."
>
>
>
>
>
> cid:image002.jpg@01C6854D.ED32E730

--
James Grant

Lightbox Technologies
312-240 Catherine St.
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8

http://www.lightbox.org
ja...@li...
613-686-1661 x101

On March 3, 2007 11:00:00 am Mike Reardon wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the Judging labels they seem to work but if you print direct
> from sfiab they do not line up on a 1x4 standard label. You have to save it
> first and then make sure that when you open it with adobe and go to print
> setup and set page size to Letter not A4. I only had to do this once and
> now everything seems ok. 

This is a problem on your computer then, the default should always be US 
Letter, not A4.. i dont think i've ever seen an A4 paper in real life.

> One thing that would be good is we need 3 labels 
> per project, yes I could just print 3 copies of the PDF but it would be
> better if the 3 were all together, can you make this happen for me please.

Since every fair would require different numbers, its best to just print 
however many you need... some fairs will only need 1, some will need up to 
5.. i guess it could be an option "how many do you want per project" but 
thats not going to be done for this years fair unless you or justin can 
implement it.

> On the name tags the boarder that gets printed is not 3x4 and does not fit
> on a Avery name tag that is 3x4. When you take the name tags apart you end
> up with black lines on two or three sides of the name tag, never 4.  Can
> you remove the boarder please. The text fits fine in the 3x4 space of the
> tag.

Hmm maybe removing that border is the way to go... I originally had the 
borders turned on because we always printed on normal paper than cut htem 
out, instead of pritning on the real card stock.. so i guess the border 
should be made into an option as well, again, probably wont happen for this 
years fairs...

>
> I think in the last patch or two ago you said you fixed the Awards Ceremony
> Script, adding the Presenters name, it still does not appear. Is that
> because the Awards are not awarded yet and when they are the presenters
> name will magically appear??

No the presenter will be there if you've specified a presenter in the awards 
section for that award, otherwise the whole line is left out (ie, "Presented 
By:" never shows up unless there's a name to put after it)

See attached.

James

>
>
> I hope I am not too late for
>
>
>
> Mike Reardon
>
> Chairperson
>
> Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair
>
> Phone: 613-639-4329
>
>  <http://www.rcrsf.ca/> www.rcrsf.ca
>
>
>
> Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair Mission statement
>
>
>
> "To strive to provide an avenue for students to showcase their scientific
> ideas and technological innovations in a competitive environment."
>
>
>
>
>
> cid:image002.jpg@01C6854D.ED32E730

-- 
James Grant

Lightbox Technologies
312-240 Catherine St.
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8

http://www.lightbox.org
ja...@li...
613-686-1661 x101

Hello,

It is always difficult to get labels exactly as wanted.  Thus I would 
prefer that SFIAB creates a csv file of the relevant data that can 
then be used as the source file for a merge in to Word that is then 
used to print the labels.  This gives much better control over what 
is on the label.  It is sometimes useful to produce complex labels 
that indicate such things as the Division, Category, and a Lunch 
symbol, as well as the name for example.

It is my experience that labels always need some fiddling with the 
font size and placing of the text to get them right.

At 11:00 AM 03-03-07, Mike Reardon wrote:
>Content-Type: multipart/related;
>         boundary="----=_NextPart_000_004F_01C75D83.179506D0"
>Content-Language: en-ca
>
>Hi James,
>
>Thanks for the Judging labels they seem to work but if you print 
>direct from sfiab they do not line up on a 1x4 standard label. You 
>have to save it first and then make sure that when you open it with 
>adobe and go to print setup and set page size to Letter not A4. I 
>only had to do this once and now everything seems ok. One thing that 
>would be good is we need 3 labels per project, yes I could just 
>print 3 copies of the PDF but it would be better if the 3 were all 
>together, can you make this happen for me please.
>
>On the name tags the boarder that gets printed is not 3x4 and does 
>not fit on a Avery name tag that is 3x4. When you take the name tags 
>apart you end up with black lines on two or three sides of the name 
>tag, never 4.  Can you remove the boarder please. The text fits fine 
>in the 3x4 space of the tag.
>
>I think in the last patch or two ago you said you fixed the Awards 
>Ceremony Script, adding the Presenters name, it still does not 
>appear. Is that because the Awards are not awarded yet and when they 
>are the presenters name will magically appear??
>
>I hope I am not too late for
>
>Mike Reardon
>Chairperson
>Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair
>Phone: 613-639-4329
><http://www.rcrsf.ca/>www.rcrsf.ca
>
>Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair Mission statement
>
>"To strive to provide an avenue for students to showcase their 
>scientific ideas and technological innovations in a competitive environment."
>
>
>cid:image002.jpg@01C6854D.ED32E730
>
>
>
>
>
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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

On February 21, 2007 09:00:40 am Patrick Whippey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some of the Configuration Variables have options that are not given
> on the Set Up page, and I cannot remember either the allowed values
> or the effect of each choice.  If there is a page somewhere that
> lists these, please point me to it.

The little blue icon in the top-right corner of each page takes you to a help 
page for tha tspecific page, unfortunately, a lot of the WIKI documention is 
as-of-yet incomplete...  it is a wiki however so anyone can update the 
documentation at any time should they feel they know enough about the section 
to do so :)

> Global Configuration Page
> What are the possible values of the Language code?

	en  OR   fr  in the one thats installed for all our canadian science fairs on 
my server..  but you could theoretically put anything in there, "de", "es", 
etc, and if translatiosn existed it would use that language by default... the 
language selector will still show to allow them to change the current 
language, this just specifies the default.

> What is the effect of changing the last option ?  The default is CDN

it says it right in the descritpion:

C=Category ID, c=Category Shortform, D=Division ID, d=Division Shortform, N=2 
digit Number

eg: if you want project numebrs to look like.. 2301 you would use   CDN

if you wanted project numbers ILS01 you would use cdN

if you wanted I-LS-01 you would use  c-d-N

if you wanted 2-3-01  you would use C-D-N

if you wanted 01  you would use N

if you wanted   201   you would use  CN

etc.

> Judge Registration
> The type of Judge Registration to use  -  Two possible values are
> "invite" and "singlepassword "

invite = chief judge must invite the judges (create the account for them)
singlepassword = the chief judge just tells the judge (via phone, email, etc) 
what the registration password is, so the judge can create their own 
account.. that judge could also tell all their colleagues at work the same 
password to let them register too.

> Judge Scheduler
> The status a project must have to be considered eligible for judge
> scheduling.

Do you want to schedule projects that have not completed their registratio? 
(ie, open?)  or do you want to schedule projects that have not yet paid (ie, 
payment pending), or do you want to only schedule projects for judging that 
are marked as 'complete' 

>
>
> Participant Registration
>
> The type of Participant Registration to use.

Open - anyone can register

Single Password - to register the person must know the registration password 
(like judges singlepassword)

School Password - to register the person must know their individual school 
password, which pre-selects their school and allows you to limit the # of 
registrations per school

Invite - Teachers must login using the school access page and invite the 
students to register by creating their accounts for them and allows you to 
limit the # of registrations per school

Open or Invite - the two combined.

>
>
> 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

-- 
James Grant

Lightbox Technologies
312-240 Catherine St.
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8

http://www.lightbox.org
ja...@li...
613-686-1661 x101

Hello,

Some of the Configuration Variables have options that are not given 
on the Set Up page, and I cannot remember either the allowed values 
or the effect of each choice.  If there is a page somewhere that 
lists these, please point me to it.

Global Configuration Page
What are the possible values of the Language code?
What is the effect of changing the last option ?  The default is CDN

Judge Registration
The type of Judge Registration to use  -  Two possible values are 
"invite" and "singlepassword "

Judge Scheduler
The status a project must have to be considered eligible for judge scheduling.

Participant Registration

The type of Participant Registration to use.

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

When you receive the signature forms / money in the mail, all you need to do 
to 'flag' them as complete in the system is go to:

	Committee Login->
	Fair Administration -> 
	Participant Registration ->
	Input Received Forms

Then you put in their registration number (from the signature form that you 
received) and click "Lookup Registration Number"  it will then allow you to 
confirm that you've called up the correct form (didnt make a typo on the 
registration number).  There's 3 buttons on the next page
1) no wrong form -- does nothing
2) right form with payment -- sets their status to 'complete'
3) right form without payment -- sets theri status to 'paymentpending'

Hope that answers your question?

James

CC: sfiab-users mailing list for archival/future reference

On February 20, 2007 12:08:08 pm patricia gillies wrote:
> Hi, James,
>
> Sorry if I'm being blind, but there doesn't seem to be any way for the
> registrar to check whether a student has submitted signature forms & fees.
> When the student is registering, it clearly indicates on the summary chart
> the status (complete/incomplete) of the various sections of registration,
> including signature form (fees should be added, too), but there's no
> similar information on the committee summary.  So there doesn't seem to be
> any way that the person who is collecting the paperwork & money can record
> that information & no way for anybody to check that it has been done before
> inputting the student registration as complete.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Patricia
>
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-- 
James Grant

Lightbox Technologies
312-240 Catherine St.
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8

http://www.lightbox.org
ja...@li...
613-686-1661 x101

Yup sure did :)

This is what happens if there's no ticket for it in the bugtracker! i forget 
things!  I'll make sure it gets in before any regional fairs using SFIAB take 
place.. i figure there'll probably be one more small update version in the 
next few weeks... then i'll stop changing things for this year's fairs.

James

On February 8, 2007 06:46:38 pm Mike Reardon wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the latest fixes, did you forget about the lack of the
> presenters name in the awards ceremony script?
>
>
>
> Mike Reardon
>
> Chairperson
>
> Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair
>
> Phone: 613-639-4329
>
>  <http://www.rcrsf.ca/> www.rcrsf.ca
>
>
>
> Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair Mission statement
>
>
>
> "To strive to provide an avenue for students to showcase their scientific
> ideas and technological innovations in a competitive environment."
>
>
>
>
>
> cid:image002.jpg@01C6854D.ED32E730

-- 
Lightbox Technologies
http://www.lightbox.org

Hi everyone! version 2.0.8 has been released and anyone thats hosted with 
lightbox has now been updated to the newest version.

Here's the changelog:

2.0.6 to 2.0.8
Fix issue with importing default judging questions
Add option to delete the uploaded logo
Allow committee privateemail to be empty
Add location & contact info for tours
Revamp configuraton page so it understands what choices are available for each 
option and gives dropdown lists where available
Add two new configuration options:
        - 'participant_student_tshirt_cost' allows the cost of each fair 
tshirt
        to be set (vancouver charges $10 for tshirts, because not all
        students want them), this also adds a 'none' option to the tshirt
        selection box, and a note indicating the tshirt cost if the costs is
        nonzero.
        - 'regfee_show_info' adds a "Registration Fee Information" to the main
        student registration page, showing a breakdown of the registration
        fee computation (including tshirts, per_student and per_project
        registration, and indicates the total.
Add a 'my profile' link on the main nav bar once a committee member logs in
Add new configuration variable 'specialawardnomination_aftersignatures'.
        Default='yes', meaning the behaviour is the same as the default.  'no' 
means
        that students can self-nominate for awards before the committee 
receives
        their signature form.
Update tour selection to dynamically build the list of grades available
Make age pulldown selection based on min/max ages, not min/max grades
Updates to tableeditor class
Fix problem with viewing judges for current year when past year data existed
Move judging age preferences to the expertise page, rename to 'divisional 
preferences'
Add the ability for judges to select special awards they would like to judge
Add the ability for a judge to specify that they are a judge for a specific 
award (ie representative from the organization)
Add award criteria to winner input page for sanity checks
Allow judges to select 'other' awards to judge
Make language field required for judges (so we know which team they can be 
assigned to!)
Add new (4th) section to signature page, which allows a postamble 
for 'additional info'
Add new option to ask students for a pronunciation of their name (for awards 
ceremony)
Hide tour capacity from students, filter the tour list by available grades and 
warn students that they need to choose a grade before a tour
Add a new report: judging sheet stickers, 1"x4" to fit exactly on the CWSF 
Judging Forms to identify the project

-- 
Lightbox Technologies
http://www.lightbox.org

Hi Chris, here are the PDFLib installation instructions, take your pick:

http://www.sfiab.ca/wiki/

specifically:

http://www.sfiab.ca/wiki/index.php/Installing_PDFLib_when_compiling_from_source
http://www.sfiab.ca/wiki/index.php/Installing_PDFLib_when_using_Gentoo_Linux

My guess is you're probably just missing the  pecl-pdflib PHP extension which 
you can install using pear

Cheers,
 James

On Friday 26 January 2007 09:55, Chris Baxter wrote:
> James
>
> How are you doing? I am the system admin for Avon Maitland District School
> Board.
>
> I have been working on this SFIAB site for Mike Ash.
>
> Everything has been working great except the PDF generation on this box.
>
> I couldn't find any documentation at your www.sfiab.ca website on the
> pdflib install. I downloaded the following file
> "http://www.pdflib.com/binaries/PDFlib/700/PDFlib-Lite-7.0.0p3.tar.gz" and
> used the instructions from www.pdflib.com.
>
> I compiled the from source, and installed into the default location.
>
> We ran some tests and Apache/PHP still cannot see the PDFLib module. Do you
> know of a way we can configure Apache/PHP so it will use the PDFLib for PDF
> generation?
>
> Thanks for all your help in advance!
>
> Chris Baxter
> WAN Network Support
> Avon Maitland District School Board
> Learning Resources Center
> 163 Princess St. E
> Clinton, Ontario
> Canada
> N0M 1L0
> E-MAIL : cb...@fc...
> PHONE : 519-482-5428 ext 240

-- 
James Grant
Lightbox Technologies
http://www.lightbox.ca
613-294-3670

James

How are you doing? I am the system admin for Avon Maitland District School Board.

I have been working on this SFIAB site for Mike Ash.

Everything has been working great except the PDF generation on this box.

I couldn't find any documentation at your www.sfiab.ca website on the pdflib install. I downloaded the following file "http://www.pdflib.com/binaries/PDFlib/700/PDFlib-Lite-7.0.0p3.tar.gz" and used the instructions from www.pdflib.com.

I compiled the from source, and installed into the default location.

We ran some tests and Apache/PHP still cannot see the PDFLib module. Do you know of a way we can configure Apache/PHP so it will use the PDFLib for PDF generation?

Thanks for all your help in advance!

Chris Baxter
WAN Network Support
Avon Maitland District School Board
Learning Resources Center
163 Princess St. E
Clinton, Ontario
Canada
N0M 1L0
E-MAIL : cb...@fc...
PHONE : 519-482-5428 ext 240

Yup now that im back from my vacation i'll be looking into these two issues... 
Dave's made a lot of upgrades over the past week too so we'll aim for the end 
of the week to get a new version released with all the new features/changes 
as well as these two issues (presenter in AC script, and labels)

James

On Sunday 21 January 2007 10:46, Mike Reardon wrote:
> James,
>
> Don't want to be a pain but time is getting close. Can you have a look at
> this and let me know.
>
> Also remember at last years CWSF it was brought up in your workshop about
> the missing Presenters names on the award ceremony script. You had said
> that it would be added, can you look at this as well, as it will make the
> script almost useless without it.
>
> Thanks for all of your hard work.
>
> Mike Reardon
> www.rcrsf.ca
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Grant [mailto:ja...@li...]
> Sent: December 19, 2006 10:09 AM
> To: sfi...@li...
> Cc: Mike Reardon
> Subject: Re: [sfiab-users] New Label
>
> Ahh yes I remember talking about this with you at the scitech conference..
>
> Its definately possible to make the report but we'll need to find a
> better/different place to put it than the mailing label generator.. or we
> need to rename the mailing label generator, since the report your talking
> of
>
> isnt a mailing label at all... though it is printed on mailing label
> stock..
>
> Also, whether this is a 'standard' report comes to question.. is this
> something that other fairs will need, or is it a case of a report that your
> fair will only ever be the only one to use, in which case its just
> 'clutter'
>
> in the overall system?
>
> I'll check into how easy itll be to make and incorporate but it'll be a few
> days before I have time.  Its too bad Justin doesnt have time to do it :)
>
> Cheers,
>  James
>
> On Tuesday 19 December 2006 08:09, Mike Reardon wrote:
> > James,
> >
> >
> >
> > In the Mailing Label generator is possible to create one more, I need one
> > that shows the project number and title and will be printed on a 1x4
>
> label.
>
> > This label is used when a  judge arrives at a project the participant
>
> gives
>
> > the judge this label so it can be attached to the judges form. I talked
> > to Justin to see if he could do it but because of his work load with
> > school, work, and his own project does not have time.
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike Reardon
> >
> > Chairperson
> >
> > Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair
> >
> > Phone: 613-639-4329
> >
> >  <http://www.rcrsf.ca/> www.rcrsf.ca
> >
> >
> >
> > Renfrew County Regional Science & Technology Fair Mission statement
> >
> >
> >
> > "To strive to provide an avenue for students to showcase their scientific
> > ideas and technological innovations in a competitive environment."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > cid:image001.jpg@01C6C636.4D3461D0

-- 
James Grant
Lightbox Technologies
http://www.lightbox.ca
613-294-3670

SFIAB Configuration -> Configuration Variables -> Participant Registration -> 
Participant Registraiton Type - "invite"

this will require then the school teacher to login via the school login page, 
and invite the students by entering a 'dummy' email address (call it a 
username if you want), then it will show them the registration number that 
goes with that dummy address (username) that they can give to the student to 
login with and complete the registration process.

I've CC'd the users list, its a good place to ask questions.

Cheers,
 James

On Monday 15 January 2007 17:13, Michael Ash wrote:
> James
>
> I have a quick question re SFIAB.  I should probably be asking this in
> through a different email or the wiki but, I must admit, I am not very wiki
> savvy.
>
> Anyway, here is the question:
>
> How do I configure the Participant Registration so that students do not
> need an email address to register??
>
> Michael Ash
> System Principal of Information Services
> Avon Maitland District School Board
> 163 Princess St. E.
> Clinton, ON
> N0M 1L0
>
> tel   519-482-5428 ext 249
> fax 519-482-482-7247
> mi...@fc...
>
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