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Re: The TIME has COME!!!!
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #12045 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 5:04am
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Terrific updated features! I love it here!
Quote This is a pretty substantial update, and there are almost GUARANTEED to be bugs lurking about with such a big update. If you see anything that doesn't seem to be working as expected, please let me know! =)

I am having a problem taking advatage of update #7:
Quote 7. Two new attributes for traditional letterboxes: Horse friendly and eXtreme!

I tried to edit some of my boxes to include the horse or eXtreme attributes but only the top 2 attributes (hand carved & premium member) appeared on the edit page. I viewed it on my Safari, IE, then Firefox browsers and it was the same on each.

Thanks for the energy you put into AQ!
t
Re: The TIME has COME!!!!
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Reply to: #12045 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 5:04am
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Wow!!! The Ho Ho fairies have been very busy! Love it! Thanks Ryan!
Koyote
update to Extreme or Horse Friendly
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Reply to: #12059 by true indigo
Dec 1, 2005 5:32am
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Quote I tried to edit some of my boxes to include the horse or eXtreme attributes but only the top 2 attributes (hand carved & premium member) appeared on the edit page. I viewed it on my Safari, IE, then Firefox browsers and it was the same on each.


I believe if you click "next" at the bottom of the page (on the page with hand carned stamp option in edit mode) then I think it will take you to the options to click "kid friendly" urban location, "extreme", etc. etc.

hope that's right...

dixiekin
Re: update to Extreme or Horse Friendly
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Reply to: #12064 by Dixie
Dec 1, 2005 5:38am
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dixiekin,

I see them now, thanks! :) I just thought the attributes would have all been together.

Thanks! Now back to adding those horseys!
t
Re: The TIME has COME!!!!
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Reply to: #12045 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 5:50am
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wow wow wow. great job again!!!!
-CCL
Re: Trying to understand Postals
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Reply to: #12045 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 6:38am
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If I have this correct (and somehow I think I don't):

- Rings not PLBs -- We should no longer create regular postal letterboxes but only postal letterbox rings. A regular PLB is just a ring with only one box. Is that right? (This sounds confusing to new users.)
- Recreate and reenter PLBs -- Meanwhile we need to reenter any of our active PLBs with a new listing and people will have to sign up for them again? Should we Retire the old one?
- Find your old signups in your Logbook - Look in your Logbook for Postal Signups to see what you had signed up for.

I am trying figure this out so no one should act on my list yet. Listen to Ryan.

Scarab of the Doubtful Lists
Re: The TIME has COME!!!!
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Reply to: #12045 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 6:42am
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Oh, SUUUWWEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT!

We love you, Ryan!

Warrior Woman
Re: Trying to understand Postals
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Reply to: #12077 by Scarab
Dec 1, 2005 6:43am
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Quote - Find your old signups in your Logbook - Look in your Logbook for Postal Signups to see what you had signed up for.


still doesn't show what postals you have created and those people who signed up for them.

I do like the support for postal rings though.
Re: The TIME has COME!!!!
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Reply to: #12045 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 6:44am
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I have to say I could not agree more with many of these posts! Ryan I thank you for all your hard work! It has already been said but I never knew we needed anymore, AQ is SO GREAT and works so well for us, I didn't think there was anything left to add. You just keep making it better.
Thanks you for all you do!

Dee
Re: Trying to understand Postals
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Reply to: #12077 by Scarab
Dec 1, 2005 6:49am
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Quote Rings not PLBs -- We should no longer create regular postal letterboxes but only postal letterbox rings. A regular PLB is just a ring with only one box. Is that right?


no, i think what Ryan meant when he said all postals are rings was that in code, AQ does't list just a'postal box'. It will list a ring, instead, which may only have one box.
Or, a ring may have twelve boxes.

you don't have to do anything different when listing a PLB, you still list it as a PLB unless it's part of a ring. Then, you specifiy that it's a ring (or part of a ring...i'm still fuzzy on that one).

AS for recreating and reentering PLB's...I dunno. I like to keep my own list in Excel of my postal recipients, so I wasn't really using AQ's signup feature. Whenver somebody signed up via AQ, i AQ mail'd them, and got their info for my own list.

-Celtic Quinn
Re: The TIME has COME!!!!
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Reply to: #12045 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 7:10am
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Holy Mackerel! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Mumma & Bunny Boy =D
Re: The TIME has COME!!!!
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Reply to: #12051 by Wadle Clan
Dec 1, 2005 7:54am
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Quote Ummm... found a glitch. I just signed up for the premium membership this morning and my page is telling me my subscription ends today.


Oh, yes, that's a known bug that I've been too scared to work on with all of the other changes I've been making. It's hard to test PayPal code on my development site! So I generally do that on the live site and I couldn't until this update was in place.

But I do know about it and make sure to update the premium membership before things go awry. =)

All is good now!

Still have to fix the bug, but you're set for the year. *nodding*

-- Ryan
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Reply to: #12057 by phynstar
Dec 1, 2005 7:59am
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Quote I just added a Event traveller...was this supposed to be added to my personal logbook at AQ?


Yep. =) I just looked at your logbook and sure enough, there's an event stamp there:

http://www.atlasquest.com/people/logbook.html?gMemberId=222&gType=eventp

Happy trails!

-- Ryan
Re: update to Extreme or Horse Friendly
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Reply to: #12065 by true indigo
Dec 1, 2005 8:04am
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Quote I just thought the attributes would have all been together.


They aren't together anymore since the hand-carved and premium members only attributes can now be applied to any type of letterbox--not just traditional ones. That first page tries to gathering information about boxes that's applicable to all boxes, while that second page tries to gather information specific to just traditional letterboxes.

-- Ryan
Re: update to Extreme or Horse Friendly
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Reply to: #12095 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 8:07am
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Quote They aren't together anymore since the hand-carved and premium members only attributes can now be applied to any type of letterbox--not just traditional ones

Now it makes perfect sense to me! :) Thanks for all of your hard work, I love this place!
t
Re: Trying to understand Postals
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Reply to: #12077 by Scarab
Dec 1, 2005 8:24am
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Quote Rings not PLBs -- We should no longer create regular postal letterboxes but only postal letterbox rings. A regular PLB is just a ring with only one box. Is that right?


Not correct. Postal boxes are just a listing that a postal box exists. A ring is a method of organizing how they should be passed from person to person. Postal boxes can live without rings, but rings cannot live without postal boxes. Sounds spooky when I put it like that, eh? =)

If you have a postal box that you want to be part of a ring, first you'll need to list the box as a regular postal letterbox. (Because it is!) Then add it to the ring it should be a part of.

Quote Recreate and reenter PLBs -- Meanwhile we need to reenter any of our active PLBs with a new listing and people will have to sign up for them again? Should we Retire the old one?


No, no, no! All pevious postal boxes still exist and work just fine. None should be marked as retired, none should be deleted, and none need to be reentered. It's the ring information that is confusing you. =) I've pulled out the signup functionality that used to be a part of postal boxes and moved it into the ring.

However, since AQ never supported rings in the past, that information needs to be entered. For each ring you own, create a ring, then add all of the people and postal boxes that are a part of it.

Quote Find your old signups in your Logbook - Look in your Logbook for Postal Signups to see what you had signed up for.


For those people who don't keep paper records of which postal boxes they're a part of, yes. That way, they can still have something to refer to which shows what boxes they signed up for.

Though it just occurred to me--if the owner of a ring didn't keep records of who signed up for the ring, they won't have an easy way to look up that information. Lemme tweak the code so the postal box itself will show old signups that the owner of a ring can refer to. =) Give it about five or ten minutes before looking up postal boxes for signup information....

Happy trails!

-- Ryan
Re: Trying to understand Postals
Board: Atlas Quest Announcements
Reply to: #12099 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 10:13am
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Quote I've pulled out the signup functionality that used to be a part of postal boxes and moved it into the ring.


So if we wish to use AQ to do singups for, and track, a single PLB we need to enter it twice? Once as a regular PLB and once as a Postal Ring?

I think I understand but I can't get it to work.

I have created two Postal Ring listings, "Cracker Jacks tracker" and "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride". It will not let me add an existing Postal to it. When I try it says "postal letterbox not found". Is it because I am trying to add my own PLB?

I don't have a ring going at the moment so I do not have something to experiment with other than my own single PLBs that I want to track.

Scarab
Re: Trying to understand Postals
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Reply to: #12131 by Scarab
Dec 1, 2005 10:34am
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Quote It will not let me add an existing Postal to it. When I try it says "postal letterbox not found". Is it because I am trying to add my own PLB?


Don't worry, it's not just you. And it's not just when you try to add your PLB's to it, either.
I added my Sweet Treats ring earlier today, and put in all the members, but couldn't get it to enter any of the boxes.

I'm guessing that's a bug that Ryan still needs to cleanse, is all.


I can't wait to get them on there, though! This feature looks like it'll be pretty cool.

-Celtic Quinn
Re: Trying to understand Postals
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Reply to: #12131 by Scarab
Dec 1, 2005 10:48am
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Quote I have created two Postal Ring listings, "Cracker Jacks tracker" and "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride". It will not let me add an existing Postal to it. When I try it says "postal letterbox not found". Is it because I am trying to add my own PLB?


No, that shouldn't be a problem.

Just to experiement, I tried logging in as you, went the "Cracker Jacks tracker" postal ring. In the "Add Postal Box" field, I searched for "cracker", which turned up two postal boxes including "Cracker Jacks". Assuming that's what you wanted, checked it and submitted, and it all worked fine.

If you want to try it yourself, you can drop the Cracker Jacks postal from the ring then try to re-add it. I did, however, use FireFox. Maybe it's a browser problem? =) What browser are you using?

I'm also wondering what search term you used to search for the postal box. I just used 'cracker', but perhaps another search term didn't work out so well.

-- Ryan
Re: The TIME has COME!!!!
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Reply to: #12090 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 12:06pm
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PHEW! Thanks, I just signed in after a few hours and that notice about my membership expiring is gone. Whatever you did, you did it right. Thanks again. :-)
Re: Trying to understand Postals
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Reply to: #12136 by Green Tortuga
Dec 1, 2005 12:15pm
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Quote Just to experiement, I tried logging in as you, went the "Cracker Jacks tracker" postal ring. In the "Add Postal Box" field, I searched for "cracker", which turned up two postal boxes including "Cracker Jacks". Assuming that's what you wanted, checked it and submitted, and it all worked fine.


I tried it again. Several times. When I search for just one word, it works. I get a list of possible boxes. Great. But my experiments showed if I search for two words, something with a space, I get, "Postal box not found". I get this if I type it exactly, with initial caps, or not exactly, whether without caps, or with a partial second word.

Many thanks,
Scarab