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Hi everyone

It's that time of year again when MEFA nomination season is fast
approaching, and we're getting the voting site ready for this year's
awards.

We've put up a beta version of the site at www.mefawards.net/MEFA2009
and we're looking for people to test that the site is working correctly.
We'd like people to log in and try to nominate stories by other people,
self-nominate, leave reviews, and generally play about with the site.

If you encounter any problems, please report them back here with as much
detail as possible about what you were doing and what happened.

The test site will be available until Thursday 21 May. Any data you
enter into the test site will NOT be carried forward to the live site 
all stories and reviews entered during the testing phase will be deleted
from the database on Thursday 21 May.

We still have a few minor changes to make to the site over the next few
days, but they won't make a huge difference to what you see when you're
testing . We also haven't updated the FAQs yet to reflect the changes
being made to the 2009 awards; updates to those will be made over the
next couple of days.

Thanks in advance for all your help with testing

Tanaqui and Aranel
MEFA Tech Support

Hi guys,


I've just had a poke around and self-nominated one of my stories. Everything on the form was fine and the email conformation popped in my Inbox promptly and in my liaison area.

I nominated the same story twice so that I could withdraw on of them -- that all worked out fine.

However, one glitch came up. When I went back to my form to select 'Nomination approved by Liaison' I then went to the 'Check for errors on this form button' but all that happened was that I went to the 'The changes you have made have been saved successfully' screen

Screenshot here:
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2314/mefascreenshot.png

Elea :)

Hi Elea,
Did it miss catching some errors on the Nomination Form? IIRC, if there's no
errors it should just record that you changed the status to "Nomination
approved by Liaison", but I was also just messing around in that part of the
code on the Nomination Form and could have broken something. What were you
expecting it to do after the error check?

Thanks,
Aranel

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Eleanor (Elea) <eleabella@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
>
> I've just had a poke around and self-nominated one of my stories.
> Everything on the form was fine and the email conformation popped in my
> Inbox promptly and in my liaison area.
>
> I nominated the same story twice so that I could withdraw on of them --
> that all worked out fine.
>
> However, one glitch came up. When I went back to my form to select
> 'Nomination approved by Liaison' I then went to the 'Check for errors on
> this form button' but all that happened was that I went to the 'The changes
> you have made have been saved successfully' screen
>
> Screenshot here:
> http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2314/mefascreenshot.png
>
> Elea :)
>
>
>
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> Visit our website: http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/Yahoo! Groups Links
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I had missed out the description at the time, so I was expecting it to pick that up but it ddn't. I had to go back and re-do it. It did do it the first time around though (as I did the same nmination twice and then withrew one). Maybe I was doing it while you were working with the code :)

Hi Elea,
Do you mean the description for WIP/Drabbles? That description is only
required for WIPs. You can leave it blank for ficlets, so it shouldn't pick
it up as an error if you don't fill in that field.

You said it picked it up as an error on the first fic? Did you use "Story"
as the type, "Ficlet" as the length, and "N/A" for Drabble/WIP? Was that the
only error on the page?

Thanks,
Aranel

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Eleanor (Elea) <eleabella@googlemail.com>wrote:

> I had missed out the description at the time, so I was expecting it to pick
> that up but it ddn't. I had to go back and re-do it. It did do it the first
> time around though (as I did the same nmination twice and then withrew one).
> Maybe I was doing it while you were working with the code :)
>
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> Visit our website: http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/Yahoo! Groups Links
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> Do you mean the description for WIP/Drabbles?

No, sorry, I meant the 'Story Summary' I missed it off both times and the first time it picked it up and told me to fill it in, but the second time it didn't.

:)

Hi Elea,
The story has a summary now. Did you go back and fill that in after you did
the error check on the form with the missing summary and it told you there
was no errors?

Aranel

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Eleanor (Elea) <eleabella@googlemail.com>wrote:

>
> > Do you mean the description for WIP/Drabbles?
>
>
> No, sorry, I meant the 'Story Summary' I missed it off both times and the
> first time it picked it up and told me to fill it in, but the second time it
> didn't.
>
> :)
>
>
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> Visit our website: http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/Yahoo! Groups Links
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Yes, I went and filled it in again (after it told me it had saved but didn't pick up the error) and saved the form. Then there were no problems.

Shall I have another go -- deliberately leaving something off the form?

Hi Elea,
Yes, go ahead and try again. I'm not able to replicate the problem.

If you have a problem again, don't do anything else to the form. I need to
see it in the state where it is causing the problem.

Thanks,
Aranel

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Eleanor (Elea) <eleabella@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Yes, I went and filled it in again (after it told me it had saved but
> didn't pick up the error) and saved the form. Then there were no problems.
>
> Shall I have another go -- deliberately leaving something off the form?
>
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OK, I did the same thing again -- self-nominated one of my stories but missed off the 'Story Summary'. I went to the end of the form and selected 'Submit completed form' and it went straight back to the menu and told me that it had saved (it did not alert me to the fact that the summary is missing).

I then when back to the form via the Liaison panel and clicked the 'check for errors on this form' button. This time it did highlight that the summary was missing and that I should correct it. I have left it as it is. I haven't put in a summary yet :)

Elea

Hi Elea,
Hmm, that is very strange. I'm not seeing anything off in the story data and
I still can't replicate it. I'm going to try logging in as you on the test
server and see if I can replicate it that way. So don't be surprised if you
have a bunch of self-nominations showing up. ;-)

Aranel

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Eleanor (Elea) <eleabella@googlemail.com>wrote:

> OK, I did the same thing again -- self-nominated one of my stories but
> missed off the 'Story Summary'. I went to the end of the form and selected
> 'Submit completed form' and it went straight back to the menu and told me
> that it had saved (it did not alert me to the fact that the summary is
> missing).
>
> I then when back to the form via the Liaison panel and clicked the 'check
> for errors on this form' button. This time it did highlight that the summary
> was missing and that I should correct it. I have left it as it is. I haven't
> put in a summary yet :)
>
> Elea
>
>
>
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> Visit our website: http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/Yahoo! Groups Links
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Hi Elea,
I'm still not able to replicate the problem while logged into your account.

Are you ABSOLUTELY sure you are using "Submit Completed Form" and not
"Submit Partial Form". Because I'm not finding any other way that the form
would ignore a blank Summary.

If you're sure you're using "Submit Completed Form", could you fill out
another self-nomination and this time write up a description of every step
you take: "1) I entered the title, "This Story"; 2) I entered the URL, "
http://somesite.com"; 3) I selected "Story" as the Story Type, etc. (leaving
the summary blank again) and email it to me so I can do exactly what you are
doing in the order you are doing it. You can send it to
techsupport@mefawards.net.

Thanks!
Aranel

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Aranel Took <araneltook@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Elea,
> Hmm, that is very strange. I'm not seeing anything off in the story data
> and I still can't replicate it. I'm going to try logging in as you on the
> test server and see if I can replicate it that way. So don't be surprised if
> you have a bunch of self-nominations showing up. ;-)
>
> Aranel
>
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Eleanor (Elea) <eleabella@googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> OK, I did the same thing again -- self-nominated one of my stories but
>> missed off the 'Story Summary'. I went to the end of the form and selected
>> 'Submit completed form' and it went straight back to the menu and told me
>> that it had saved (it did not alert me to the fact that the summary is
>> missing).
>>
>> I then when back to the form via the Liaison panel and clicked the 'check
>> for errors on this form' button. This time it did highlight that the summary
>> was missing and that I should correct it. I have left it as it is. I haven't
>> put in a summary yet :)
>>
>> Elea
>>
>>
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>> Visit our website: http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/Yahoo! Groups Links
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Hi Aranel,


I just tried it again -- deliberately leaving the Story Summary blank and then selecting 'submit completed form' and it did indeed highlight that it wasn't checked. So it's all working fine :D

Elea

Hi Elea,
Glad to hear it's working now. If you find any other problems, let us know!
:-)

Thanks!
Aranel

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Eleanor (Elea)
<eleabella@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Aranel,
>
>
> I just tried it again -- deliberately leaving the Story Summary blank and
> then selecting 'submit completed form' and it did indeed highlight that it
> wasn't checked. So it's all working fine :D
>
> Elea
>
>
>
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> Visit our website: http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/Yahoo! Groups Links
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