OLC Problems

This is what I use,

http://www3.onlinecontest.org/olc-2....tml?country=US

In the US I find the calendar defaults to tomorrow's date, so I often
initially get a "no flights to report" notice.

Also, since there are apparently Javascript problems with their
calendar, using the mouse to select a new date does not usually work.
I have found that this bug can be avoided by using the upper calendar
arrows to move the date back a year and then return forward a year.
This seems to enable the mouse to select the desired date in the
calendar.

..... as I have said before regarding OLC2, avoiding these sorts of
problems is why we have "beta tests" before a production release.

We in the northern hemisphere are in our low season, pity our poor
brothern in the southern hemisphere entering their prime season with a
busted OLC.

Bob


On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:57:23 GMT, "P. Corbett "
wrote:

Mal wrote:
Is anyone else having problems logging in to the OLC

I can usually log on using www3.onlinecontest.org but they keep saying
that there are no flights to report. It is hard to believe that there is
no one on the planet flying a glider, especially down under.

Can anyone pass-on the link they are using to view flights with the new
system?

Paul
ZZ

The calendar is working today.

The 'suggested initial date' displayed will always be Euro time I
suspect until their scripts can detect local time zones, but a single
click on a calendar day with claimed flights now works.

Patience is the key. They had to get it running to take in new flight
logs, that's priority one. And how do you test this in a volunteer
development environment with the volume of countries, langauges and
Internet frailities? The testing they DID do must have worked before we
saw anything public.

Next they worried about auto claiming from SeeYou, Strepla, etc. I bet.
And those folks are responding, and again volume use draws out bugs,
and those will be fixed.

We are told that the regional results will return, as will Novice class
or whatever your country had before.

The Google Earth link may seem a frill, but my guess is the volunteer
who took on that component got it working before the other requirements
were ready. This feature is certainly one we can all use to promote
interest in our sport, and it's just plain fun to see flights from
around the world in such terrain detail. Whether they use the paved
strip or the grass! You can even decide whether the outlanding pilot
chose the best field (for when the imagery was taken anyway) ! My guess
is that by mid summer 2007 the complaints here will focus on what
country or state has the best or worst resolution in Google Earth!

It's free, it's fun, it's addictive. The proof of that is in the posts
showing frustration with getting a flight posted.

Let's give them support and suggestions and maybe reduce the anger a
notch or two. You know how you can feel as a club volunteer when
someone thinks your contributions are less than perfect.

Great work OLC and the volunteers in every country, and continued
success! ....Bringing more fun to an already fun sport!

Bob
Canada












Bob Gibbons wrote:
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Also, since there are apparently Javascript problems with their
calendar, using the mouse to select a new date does not usually work.

Bob, you are so right.

We must be OLC addicts, since we (myself included) whine like little
kids when it doesn't work RIGHT NOW!

I would love to see and article somewhere (Sailplane and Gliding,
Soaring, online?) telling the story of how the OLC came to be.

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

Kirk
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Bob Gibbons wrote:
This is what I use,

http://www3.onlinecontest.org/olc-2....tml?country=US

In the US I find the calendar defaults to tomorrow's date, so I often
initially get a "no flights to report" notice.

Also, since there are apparently Javascript problems with their
calendar, using the mouse to select a new date does not usually work.
I have found that this bug can be avoided by using the upper calendar
arrows to move the date back a year and then return forward a year.
This seems to enable the mouse to select the desired date in the
calendar.

.... as I have said before regarding OLC2, avoiding these sorts of
problems is why we have "beta tests" before a production release.

We in the northern hemisphere are in our low season, pity our poor
brothern in the southern hemisphere entering their prime season with a
busted OLC.

Bob


Success! Thanks Bob

Paul
ZZ

If it is that unreliable and with the wealth of IT talent that we have
within the soaring community, I'm surprised that no one else has tried
to improve on the system!!

Bob
7U

Mal wrote:
Is anyone else having problems logging in to the OLC

--
Mal

www.mals.net

Bob wrote:
If it is that unreliable and with the wealth of IT talent that we have
within the soaring community, I'm surprised that no one else has tried
to improve on the system!!

Bob
7U

Mal wrote:

Is anyone else having problems logging in to the OLC

--
Mal

www.mals.net


So far so good - I have been able to log on every time I tried (same timezone as
Germany). Now if the weather would just improve enough that there was a flight
worth uploading...

Bruce

Bruce Greef wrote:
Bob wrote:
If it is that unreliable and with the wealth of IT talent that we have
within the soaring community, I'm surprised that no one else has tried
to improve on the system!!

Bob
7U

Mal wrote:

Is anyone else having problems logging in to the OLC

--
Mal

www.mals.net


So far so good - I have been able to log on every time I tried (same timezone as
Germany). Now if the weather would just improve enough that there was a flight
worth uploading...

Bruce
Gone again

Frank

The speed of the display of the OLC-champion got much faster over the
last few days.

Good work.