There was a bug in the scratch process where if you started on the Meets tab when the Scratch action was selected, there was not a list of swimmers presented for the user to scratch. When starting on the Roster page and selecting a swimmer to scratch did work properly. The bug has been fixed and v0.2.488 is now available for download and both paths, starting with a meet or starting with a swimmer, now work correctly. The same bug would have affected Opt-In meets as well.
Bugs, Development, Progress, download
Bug, download, opt-in, opt-out
WordPress 3.0 is expected to be out sometime in May. I figured I ought to do some basic testing to see if changes to WordPress would have any significant impact on wp-SwimTeam.
I have a Linux Virtual Machine which I have set up such that I can always run the bleeding edge of WordPress – right out of the Subversion repository. When a new version of WordPress is ready to come out I update my Linux VM with the current state of WordPress and the current state of wp-SwimTeam and run some tests.
I started doing this a couple weeks ago and got busy and never finished it. This morning, I got back to it. It turns out, it didn’t run very well. Both wp-SwimTeam and phpHtmlLib plugins were calling deprecated WordPress functions. In releases prior to 3.0, there were no warnings about calling a deprecated function but 3.0 has a new warning feature. The way it is implemented, the warnings actually caused a failure with phpHtmlLib which resulted in WordPress not successfully loading.
I have fixed the problems in both plugins and committed the changes. However, I have not released new builds yet so until I do, I advise sticking with the 2.9.x release of WordPress. I expect a new build later this week at the latest.
Bugs, Development, WordPress
3.0, Bug, deprecated, phpHtmlLib, WordPress
Quick turn-around on a release as there was a bug which was really bothering me. The Opt-In/Opt-Out report was pulling swimmer label from the active season regardless of which season a meet was created against. This was fine for the current season but messed up reports from any prior season.
The report now pulls swimmer labels from the season that the meet is created against so looking back a a report from last season or two seasons ago will still show correctly.
Bugs, Development, Release
Bug, opt-in, opt-out, Report Generator
This afternoon I posted v0.1.455 of the wp-SwimTeam plugin. This release fixes a bug with Active vs Inactive swimmers. This bug manifested itself in incorrect generation of Roster Reports and CSV Exports. A couple other minor issues were also corrected.
Bugs, Development, Release, download
Bug, download, Release
Here is a list of known issues with the current (v0.1.450) release:
- Roster CSV export does not work. Fixed in v0.1.455.
- Scratch/Register lists all meets instead of only meets for active season.
- There a couple of debug strings still displayed. Fixed in v0.1.455.
- Global Update does not include Status.
- Scratch and Registration reports look at current season for swimmer labels instead of the season the meet was created for. Fixed in v0.1.456.
Bugs, Development
Bug, download
This evening I posted a v0.1.442 of wp-SwimTeam on the download page. There isn’t a lot of new functionality which is visible yet but this released fixes a couple things I ran into getting ready for the MacDolphins 2010 season.
Updating a season now allows a prior year to be selected – the year range now shows 3 years prior and 7 years after the current year. Most of the success and error messages now use the Wordpress styling where they appear near the top of the page in a colored box. There are probably a few I missed but most of them should work correctly.
This release also exposes the start of the results import although it doesn’t currently do anything other than load the file and do some basic parsing on it to make sure it is a valid SDIF results file. The data is not currently stored in the database.
Bugs, Release
Bug, Release, SDIF
This morning I uploaded a new version of wp-SwimTeam. It is available on the download page. This version fixes a minor bug that somehow I overlooked. The bug manifested as a PHP syntax error on the Reports menu. No other changes are included in this build.
Release, download
Bug, download, Release, wp-SwimTeam
In the build I posted yesterday there were a couple of bugs which prevented the auto-registration feature to work when a swimmer is added. There was also a bug in the age verification which allowed swimmers outside of the age range to added to the system and then registered for the active season.
If you download v0.1.375 yesterday, you will want to download v0.1.376 and update the plugin.
Bugs, Development, Progress, Release, download
Bug, download, registration, wp-SwimTeam
I have released a new version of the phpHtmlLib plugin for download. This is a minor update which fixes an issue when WordPress is installed in a sub-directory. The icons for the widgets would not be displayed when WordPress was installed this way.
Release, download
Bug, phpHtmlLib, registration
WordPress has a built in set of Roles and Capabilities. The wp-SwimTeam plugin makes use of these standard roles and capabilities to allow certain actions to be performed. At least it is supposed to. It turns out that when I redesigned the menus to take advantage of the 2.7 Dashboard, I restricted access to all of the menus except the end user capability to users with Administrator privileges.
This is a mistake and this morning I committed a change which will rectify the problem. The way it is supposed to work is as follows:
- Subscriber – access to the “Swim Team” end user menu and capability.
- Author – Subscriber capability plus access to the Report Generators.
- Editor – Author capability plus access to the Manage menu and capability.
- Administrator – Author capability plus access to the Options menu.
In theory the Options menu contains items which should be set once and by in large, left alone. The Management menu contains the items which require regular interaction from one or more users who coordinate the Swim Team.
Bugs, Development, Progress
Bug, capabilities, permissions, roles
