Plans

Future of the Program

Danny is working on an entirely new tab program that runs off the web that will be ready for use hopefully Fall 2011. You can view information about that program at: http://www.forensicstournament.net/everythingtab

I will be using 2.2 this fall (2010). I have tested it on Excel 2010 and have not seen any problems.

Unfortunately, my ability to make additional changes, add features, and to fix bugs is fairly limited. I will still try and hope to have a 2.3 in early January 2011. I would expect 2.3 to have minor changes.

 

By Jim Hanson Tagged:

What was added in 2.2

2.2 was posted Jan 4, 2010.

This list shows you features that have been added in the beta we are testing.

1. New, clearer message when you start a new tournament. It also tells users to SAVE AS so they don't use the zipped version of the program (which won't save their changes).

2. Bye Judges and Bye Rooms are now called "Judge TBA" and "Room TBA" to avoid students being confused into thinking they have a bye round.

3. Cume sheet appears better printed and when posted online.

4. Judges added to a MPJ division will now appear as 997 allowing accurate editing and allowing the user to know which judges are not truly constrained.

5. The tie breaker default settings have been reset to the traditional settings used at most tournaments.

6. The teams form has a small explanation that regional coding happens on the schools form.

7. Users are now notified that importing large tournament files from bruschke/ft.net may take a short while to load.

8. Quickstats now states Division number rather than just the number.

9. MPJ message explaining 1, 997 (need to set pref), 998 (constrained), and 999 (strike) now fully shows.

10. New, better, and more accurate explanation of what to do for help on the Start Page.

11. Export Pairings now fully works again (no split spreadsheets).

12. on this site, clearer instructions for downloading have been provided to avoid a few problems users had in downloading and using the program.

13. on the edit/view pairings and change judges forms, two big changes:
a. zoom. if you have a small screen, you can now zoom the form to fit.
b. two tabbed pages of info on each allowing you to see many more debates at once.

14. judges form now tells how many times a judge has judged.

15. judges and rooms form got tweaks to provide more info and more readability.

16. prefs now show correctly for all judges in elims on the edit/view pairings form.

17. warning note for entering byes now included.

18. clearer explanation in the log showing judge changes you made.

19. not enough judges for elims? the program will still pair without causing any errors. (you just need to manually change the "judges tba").

20. bug for cumes, team rankings, speaker rankings, when you enter b's for byes is now fixed.

21. some updated information to the help buttons (even if the help isn't super helpful; at least the help that is provided is now more accurate with changes we've made to the program).

22. information on the pairing form that helps you decide how many teams to break (based on no of teams competing or records of the teams).

23. warning about having too many ada rooms assigned now included.

 24. fixed division name for teams in the teams/judges debating/clearing.

 25. made elim ballot entry steps clearer.

By Jim Hanson Tagged: ,

What's new in 2.15

2.15 is now available, one day ahead of schedule.

1. fix for bug in printing elim ballots that occurred in some situations.

2. fix for calculation of speaker ranks if used as a tie breaker

3. cumes now show the top two tie breakers that you choose in the tournament settings.

4. the ampersand problem downloading from forensicstournament.net is now fixed.

5. for more printers, labels should now print correctly. we still recommend using ballots but hopefully this is better.

6. fix for error in showing sweepstakes results that occurs in some situations.

7. notification that if you add a team after round 1, you will need to manually pair that team in round 2 (or any odd numbered round).

8. notification that an import from forensicstournament.net is using the wrong names for types of debate (which will cause problems with cumes, speaker rankings, etc.).

9. made the import form larger for easier use.

10. quick change form, new "return to record results" button for clarity.

11. note indicating that sweeps save the settings.

12. note indicating you can change judges in the record ballots form.

13. made judge's name bold in the record ballots form.

14. adjusted info on the time blocks form from the record ballots form.

 

By Jim Hanson Tagged: ,

After 2.100

2.2 is expected in early January. 2.2 will reflect improvements after Jim uses the program at two tournaments.

By Jim Hanson Tagged: , , , , , , ,

What is new in 2.1?

Here are new features and fixes in 2.1:
1. Speaker point calculation bugs are now corrected.
2. Tie breakers explanations have been updated and clarified.
3. Tab order on the time blocks page changed.
4. Message for problems with pairings--now says "exit form and go to pairings" 
5. "Show only teams/judges/rooms active" now appears in a bigger font.
6. Error message for rounds with bye judges, bye rooms, is clearer-more concise.
7. Judge and room assignment and changes bugs in elims have now been corrected.
8. Create cumes error when using ranks at the tournament is now corrected.
9. Printing two single ballots in a row bug is now corrected.
10. When changing judges, the form now correctly updates to show judges are/are not available.
11. The rooms form now correctly displays all rooms
12. Teams and judges clearing - in a round now correctly works
13. Explanations of recording ballots made clearer, including for ranks.
14. Confirmation sheets clarification.
15. Judge Pref Sheets, now says struck and constrained instead of 999 and 998
16. Fix bug when pairing a finals closeout
17. Fix for recording ballots that begin with "42"
18. Fix for sweepstakes counting error that happens in once instance
19. Message now says "No Teams with excess strikes" when doing judge pref sheets.
20. Judge pref sheets message now correctly states what strike and constraint numbers are
21. Warnings now tell users not to edit data on the sheets as that causes errors.
22. There are now Excel 2003 versions of the regular and high-res screen versions.
 
2.1 includes all of the changes made in 2.015 and 2.070--over 100 enhancements.
 
By Jim Hanson Tagged: , , ,

2.070

 

2.070 reflects fixes Jim made right after using the program at the PLU tournament Sept 26-27, 2009.

2.070 fixes a significant bug in calculating speaker points. PLEASE SWITCH TO 2.070. Do not use earlier versions.

HERE ARE THE NEW UPDATES FOR EASIER USE IN 2.070
FIXED: BALLOT MESSAGE IS NOW LARGER FONT SIZE
FIXED: LETTERS PER TEAM NOW SHOWS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU GET WITH THAT FEATURE.
FIXED: QUICKSTATS MOVED TO BOTTOM ON SCHOOLS, TEAMS, JUDGES, ROOMS FORMS
 
FIXED: DROP DOWN BOX FOR TEAM AND JUDGE SCHOOL LISTS, INCREASED TO SHOW 16.
 
FIXED: DROP DOWN BOX FOR JUDGE OBLIGATIONS INCREASED TO SHOW ALL 8 PRELIMS
 
FIXED: ADDED TO ERROR MESSAGE THAT USERS NEED TO HAVE AT LEAST 3 EXTRA JUDGES (the program is very flaky without that).
 
FIXED: ADA ROOMS DUPLICATE USE FIXED (danny did this in 2.1beta)
 
FIXED: PLUSTAB IMPORT PREFS FEATURE FROM FTN ADDED (danny did this in 2.1beta)
 
FIXED: ROOMS DETAILED INFO IN LOWER PART OF SCREEN NOW SHOWS LONG NAME DIVISIONS
 
FIXED: DELETE ROUND IS  A BIGGER FORM, SELECT MULTIPLE DIVISIONS MESSAGE
 
FIXED: TOURNAMENT SETTINGS, ADD WORD "NO." TO TWO ITEMS FOR CLARITY AND SHORTENED NO. PRELIM DEBATE DROP DOWN, MADE DROP DOWN LIST 10 FOR LETTERS FOR TEAM NAMES.
 
FIXED: TEAM LIST, LONGER SPACE FOR DIVISION NAME
 
FIXED: BIGGER PRINT-EXPORT PAIRINGS FORM
 
FIXED: ON START PAGE BUTTON NAMES REVISED FOR GREATER CLARITY: VIEW-EDIT PAIRINGS, GO TO ROUNDS PAGE, PRINT-EXPORT PAIRINGS, TEAMS & JUDGES CLEARING -IN A ROUND
 
FIXED PRINT BALLOTS, LONGER ROUND LIST, LONGER DIVISION SPACE, WORDING CHANGES
 
********FIXED: DEFAULT IS TO NOW SHOW TEAMS, JUDGES, ROOMS BEING USED/WHO ARE STILL COMPETING
 
FIXED: PAIRING REPORTS SHOW ALL INFORMATION WITHOUT HAVING TO MOVE TO THE RIGHT (THE MESSAGE IS SLIGHTLY WIDER AND IT IS NOW IN A SMALLER FONT)
 
FIXED: TEAMS DEBATING IN ELIMS DROP DOWN LIST IS NOW 17 SO NO MULTIPLE CLICK FOR LARGE ELIMS
 
FIXED: TEAMS/JUDGES CLEARING FORM IS NOW BIGGER AND WITH EXPLANATION BUTTON
 
FIXED: ROOM DETAILS NOW HAS A TAB ORDER FOR ENTERING ROUND BY ROUND CONSTRAINTS ON THE USE OF THE ROOM WITH THE KEYBOARD
 
FIXED: UPDATE TEAM NAME--HAS PARAGRAPH RETURNS AND SAYS THE WORD "UPDATE" NOW.
 
FIXED: LIST OF JUDGES COLUMN HEADERS ARE NOW EASIER TO UNDERSTAND
 
FIXED: ROOMS LIST IS NOW SMALLER FONT SO THE WHOLE THING MORE LIKELY SHOWS ON SCREEN (SO NO SCROLLING TO THE RIGHT NEEDED ANYMORE)
 
FIXED: ADDED SPACES IN THE "OPENING SEPARATE SPREADSHEET" MESSAGE
By Jim Hanson Tagged: , , , , ,

What's new in 2.015?

Today, Version 2.015 is posted.

New things in 2.015:

1. Export Pairings to Spreadsheet now goes to to the Pairings.

2. The buttons for changing judges in elims works the way you would expect.

3. Many options now have explanations or clearer wordings.

4. There is now a version for screens with high resolutions. This allows you to see more teams, judges, schools, rooms, etc. at once with less scrolling for larger tournaments.

Hope you enjoy. :)

By Jim Hanson Tagged:

Program is done!

We are looking to release PlusTab 2.0 in the next few days after adding instructional material to the website.  All known bugs have been worked out and the program has been tested at 3 camp tournaments in the past few days.

Danny posted Version 2.000 on August 17, 2009.

By Danny Cantrell Tagged:

Version 2.0

Will be available within a few days. Jim is doing final final testing at this camp this week and as any final bugs are ironed out we will post the 2.0 version to the public here.

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