OLC North America

I know there have posts regarding the OLC. Perhaps I missed this
topic.

Anyone know how to navigate the new OLC?
All I can get is OLC Worldwide, I can't seem to make it display just
North America.

Any tricks?
Also seem to have a lot of trouble with the calendar. I have to go
back and forward to make it show results for the current day. Also the
calendar is somewhat tricky.

I really enjoy the OLC, I sure hope it is running better by next
season.

Dan Rihn
ASW-20 WO

Dan,

The US link to the new OLC site is
http://www3.onlinecontest.org/olc-2....tml?country=US
Historical data can be found at http://masl.to/?E25B1525E

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/

"Dan" wrote in message
oups.com...
I know there have posts regarding the OLC. Perhaps I missed this
topic.

Anyone know how to navigate the new OLC?
All I can get is OLC Worldwide, I can't seem to make it display just
North America.

Any tricks?
Also seem to have a lot of trouble with the calendar. I have to go
back and forward to make it show results for the current day. Also the
calendar is somewhat tricky.

I really enjoy the OLC, I sure hope it is running better by next
season.

Dan Rihn
ASW-20 WO

On Dec 10, 8:57 am, "Dan" wrote:
Anyone know how to navigate the new OLC?
All I can get is OLC Worldwide, I can't seem to make it display just
North America.

Works OK for me... It does have a habit of reverting back to worldwide
a lot - perhaps it's not using cookies effectively?

Also seem to have a lot of trouble with the calendar. I have to go
back and forward to make it show results for the current day. Also the
calendar is somewhat tricky.

Yes, it seems to have no "memory" for one's time zone (cookies again),
so in the USA, if it's evening, it's already tomorrow to the OLC. The
calendar app has a problem with ging back a day in this case, so the
solution is tt go back a month, then forward and all is well. I really
miss the buttons on the main meny that let you go back & forward a day
at a time.

I really enjoy the OLC, I sure hope it is running better by next
season.

Overall, in the last few weeks, it's gotten to the point that, for me,
it's close to the functionality of last year's. One can now click
onthe pilot's name or takeoff site and get a list of all flights for
that item. It's reall starting to get quite good.

As a software developer myself, I understand the challenge of putting
together a website such as this with a huge dynamic content. How many
of us would have volunteered to test this new version "offline" to get
the bugs out? Probably not enough to really wring it out. So they did
the next best thing, and just "forced" it on us and we had to suffer a
little through the growing pains.

What is critical to making this a better product is good problem
reporting by the users back to the developers. And unfortunately, it
seems this forum is the only obvious place to do that at this time. I
see nothing on the OLC website for user feedback. This shoud be an
open forum such as SeeYou has. Users can post their wishes and
troubles openly. Then the developers should reply in a timely fashion.
But at the same time other users can perhaps offer solutions, or just
chime in with "me too", so the problem or feature is identified as
popular.

-Tom

5Z wrote:

On Dec 10, 8:57 am, "Dan" wrote:
Anyone know how to navigate the new OLC?
All I can get is OLC Worldwide, I can't seem to make it display just
North America.

Works OK for me... It does have a habit of reverting back to worldwide
a lot - perhaps it's not using cookies effectively?


I really enjoy the OLC, I sure hope it is running better by next
season.

Overall, in the last few weeks, it's gotten to the point that, for me,
it's close to the functionality of last year's. One can now click
on the pilot's name or takeoff site and get a list of all flights for
that item. It's really starting to get quite good.

You can get a list of all flights by pilot or by club, but the list
doesn't have any information about the flights except the date.
Certainly there must be a way to list some information about the
flights, such as OLC points or distance?

There where times when there as a open forum on onlinecontest, but it
was discontinued some time ago.


5Z schrieb:


What is critical to making this a better product is good problem
reporting by the users back to the developers. And unfortunately, it
seems this forum is the only obvious place to do that at this time. I
see nothing on the OLC website for user feedback. This shoud be an
open forum such as SeeYou has. Users can post their wishes and
troubles openly. Then the developers should reply in a timely fashion.
But at the same time other users can perhaps offer solutions, or just
chime in with "me too", so the problem or feature is identified as
popular.

-Tom

On Dec 10, 2:20 pm, hans wrote:
There where times when there as a open forum on onlinecontest, but it
was discontinued some time ago.

Yes, and I used it on occasion.

-Tom

thanks Wayne,
This did take me to the USA site, but I can't get the calendar to work
correctly on the proper date.
Any suggestions?

Dan
Wayne Paul wrote:
Dan,

The US link to the new OLC site is
http://www3.onlinecontest.org/olc-2....tml?country=US
Historical data can be found at http://masl.to/?E25B1525E

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/

"Dan" wrote in message
oups.com...
I know there have posts regarding the OLC. Perhaps I missed this
topic.

Anyone know how to navigate the new OLC?
All I can get is OLC Worldwide, I can't seem to make it display just
North America.

Any tricks?
Also seem to have a lot of trouble with the calendar. I have to go
back and forward to make it show results for the current day. Also the
calendar is somewhat tricky.

I really enjoy the OLC, I sure hope it is running better by next
season.

Dan Rihn
ASW-20 WO

I can't get the calendar to work _at all_ now. I've tried it in both
IE and Firefox, same result. In IE, there is a message in the Status
line at the bottom of the screen which says "Done, but with errors on
page." When you double click on the error icon, a message box comes up
which gives data on two errors, or the same one twice. I can't copy
the text and paste it, so I'll try to reproduce it correctly he

LIne: 63
Char: 1
Error: 'Calendar' is undefined
Code: 0
URL: http://www3.onlinecontest.org/olc-2....olcscore.html?
country=US

The second error is the same, except it is at Line: 360 and Char: 4

This renders OLC completely useless to me, as the default brings up the
calendar date as today, and in the US, nobody's flying yet. I can't go
back to look at previos days, even if I first select Worldwide as the
area of interest.

Are you OLC guys awake? Do you test any of this stuff?


Dan wrote:
thanks Wayne,
This did take me to the USA site, but I can't get the calendar to work
correctly on the proper date.
Any suggestions?

Dan

Yes, I'm seeing the same thing both last night and just now when I
checked. They obviously upgraded something and broke it in the
process. I found a workaround to at least let me see the flight I
posted by:
1. Clicking on "Scoring"
2. Then on "Statistics: Club"
3. Finding my club and clicking on it
4. Clicking on "i" for the entry of the flight I posted

Like I said, I was able to see the flight I wanted to see. I wasn't of
course able to get to the list of the flights for another day though.
So it may not help for what you were wanting.

Later!

-Mark

flying_monkey wrote:
I can't get the calendar to work _at all_ now. I've tried it in both
IE and Firefox, same result. In IE, there is a message in the Status
line at the bottom of the screen which says "Done, but with errors on
page." When you double click on the error icon, a message box comes up
which gives data on two errors, or the same one twice. I can't copy
the text and paste it, so I'll try to reproduce it correctly he

LIne: 63
Char: 1
Error: 'Calendar' is undefined
Code: 0
URL: http://www3.onlinecontest.org/olc-2....olcscore.html?
country=US

The second error is the same, except it is at Line: 360 and Char: 4

This renders OLC completely useless to me, as the default brings up the
calendar date as today, and in the US, nobody's flying yet. I can't go
back to look at previos days, even if I first select Worldwide as the
area of interest.

Are you OLC guys awake? Do you test any of this stuff?


Dan wrote:
thanks Wayne,
This did take me to the USA site, but I can't get the calendar to work
correctly on the proper date.
Any suggestions?

Dan

On Dec 11, 6:32 am, "flying_monkey"
wrote:
I can't get the calendar to work _at all_ now.

Yup - it's broken now. I click on the calendar and nothing happens.
Was working for me on Sunday morning....

As I said in a previous post, there is no feedback forum on the OLC
site itself, so we need to use the next best thing and post our
troubles here. But... please don't give up on the product. When it
works it's a fantastic way to document and share our flights.

So if you have troubles, take the time to document exactly what you
wanted to do and how you went about it. Perhaps some other user can
then help - or one of the OLC developers will see the post.

-Tom