A new version of wp-SwimTeam has been posted. This releases fixes a couple minor bugs which prevented display of swim meet information in certain situations when scratching or registering from a swim meet. This version also introduces two new features:
- Open or Close the registration system. When the registration system is open, users can register their swimmers for the current season. When the registration system is closed, only an Admin or Editor can register swimmers. This setting appears on the Registration tab from the Options sub-menu.
- Enable or disable user sign ups for jobs. When the job system is set for user sign ups, a user can sign up for any open job. When the job system is set for admin sign up, users with either Admin or Editor roles can sign users up for jobs. This second mode is good for teams where a paper or Excel list is used for job sign ups. This setting appears on the Swim Team tab from the Options sub-menu.
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I have not done much work on wp-SwimTeam over the past few months but about a week ago I dusted off my virtual machine (have I ever mentioned how much I love VMware Workstation?) in preparation for the upcoming season. Since I last worked on the project there have been numerous patches for Windows XP (my development area is an XP VM) and WordPress has moved from 2.7 through the 2.8.x releases and is now on 2.9.1.
All new work will be done against 2.9.1 (for now) so I have upgraded WordPress and the plugins that I use in conjunction with wp-SwimTeam. There are two areas where I will focus on immediately – importing results which I never finished last year and volunteer management. I’ll probably finish the portion of results I am working on right now and then move on to volunteer management since we’ll need that functionality in March when the MacDolphins do registration.
News, Progress, WordPress
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I had a request to support fields that weren’t visible to the end users when they used the system. I decided to support these “administrative” fields as I have been referring to them by enhancing the optional fields for swimmers and users to be tagged as “user” fields or “administrative” fields.
When a field is defined as “administrative”, only users with WordPress permissions of EDITOR or higher will have the fields visible. For all other users, they are hidden. An Admin or Editor can change the value of the field and it will be saved when the user or swimmer data is saved.
The first practical usage of this is with a team that wants to mark registration fees as paid on a per swimmer basis. Not the sort of thing you would expose to a parent but useful from a logistics perspective.
Both user and administrative fields are available in reports.
Development, Ideas, News, Progress
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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.
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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
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This afternoon I uploaded v0.0.322 of the wp-SwimTeam plugin.
Bug Fixes
- Permission requirements were wrong – to do much of anything required the user to have Administrator permissions. It now works as outlined in the earlier post today.
- Reporting has been fixed to account for an odd database query issue where in some cases, the age group for swimmers would show up as “none”.
Enhancements
- Registration has been enhanced to support registration fees. This is still a work in progress. The fees can be entered but nothing is done with them yet.
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