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v 2.3.8 release notes - 8/20/2004 11:41:26 PM

Eric

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FIT AND FINISH
(1) Tonight I made a series of changes to make the site work more effectively with the FireFox browser. Now the checkboxes for selecting and deselecing inventory and consumed bottles should work. Likewise, control enabling and disabling on the screens for adding purchases, inventory and consumed bottles should also work. I cleaned up some of the CSS rules so that borders show appropriately. I also cleaned up the linebreaking of some of the controls in the navigation bar.
(2) Tasting notes with carriage returns now honor their display.
(3) The inventory can now be sorted independently on purchase date and store.

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RE: v 2.3.8 release notes - 8/21/2004 8:58:34 AM

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Now the checkboxes for selecting and deselecing inventory and consumed bottles should work. Likewise, control enabling and disabling on the screens for adding purchases, inventory and consumed bottles should also work. I cleaned up some of the CSS rules so that borders show appropriately. I also cleaned up the linebreaking of some of the controls in the navigation bar.

These changes should also work well in the other Mozilla 1.7 based browsers. I use Camino 0.8 on the Mac and the same changes appeared which is GREAT, as I had never thought to report them before.

BTW, I also did a quick sanity with Safari on the Mac and it still seems to be working correctly.

Pat

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RE: v 2.3.8 release notes - 8/21/2004 9:46:11 AM

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ORIGINAL: patlee
These changes should also work well in the other Mozilla 1.7 based browsers. I use Camino 0.8 on the Mac and the same changes appeared which is GREAT, as I had never thought to report them before.

Hey man, if it's not too much trouble, any glitch is one glitch too many, so please do report them no matter how small. The only thing at this point that should only work on IE for Windows is label printing.

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RE: v 2.3.8 release notes - 8/21/2004 11:59:32 AM

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Hey man, if it's not too much trouble, any glitch is one glitch too many, so please do report them no matter how small. The only thing at this point that should only work on IE for Windows is label printing.

Deal! The only thing I didn't report was the separators. Sorry didn't reported it earlier, as CellarTracker looks so much better now in Mozilla based browsers!

BTW, I hadn't noticed the group checkboxes not working. I never did a select all with that checkbox to catch it.

Did you hide the Print Label option on the navigation bar for all non IE Windows browsers? I am curious. I did document it appropriate in the docs that it does require IE for Windows, but I am not sure if you hide the Print option on non IE browsers on Windows and on all other platforms like you do on the Mac.

Pat

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RE: v 2.3.8 release notes - 8/21/2004 12:31:07 PM

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Did you hide the Print Label option on the navigation bar for all non IE Windows browsers? I am curious. I did document it appropriate in the docs that it does require IE for Windows, but I am not sure if you hide the Print option on non IE browsers on Windows and on all other platforms like you do on the Mac.

I don't yet. I am going to try and revisit the whole label printing this this weekend, as the page is pretty funky/quirky. I am mid-rewrite right now. One thing I will also look to do is to prevent non-IE users from trying to print but also show them some sort of info about using IE if they are on Windows.

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RE: v 2.3.8 release notes - 8/22/2004 9:49:23 AM

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eric-

i love all the changes you are making. the screens are becoming more useful than i could ever have imagined.

i am still confused about the availability index. what is the meaning of a negative value? why does it sometimes list more bottles available than are owned? are these quirks unique to a situation where consumption is zero?

when you now list community average for drink soonest and latest, is this based only on entries marked as personal or anything in the personal window regardless of source?

when i entered cellar, i manually transposed parker values to the personal window. is there a way to now automatically ascribe them to parker or do i have to do than again manually?

is anyone compulsive enough to want to have a field tracking import sources?

regards,

cliff fisch

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RE: v 2.3.8 release notes - 8/23/2004 8:50:30 AM

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i am still confused about the availability index. what is the meaning of a negative value? why does it sometimes list more bottles available than are owned? are these quirks unique to a situation where consumption is zero?

There is a link at the top of the "Availability" table ("Drinkability" link) that says: DESCRIPTION OF AVAILABILITY INDEX.

The portions of the description relevant to your question are:

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If you have not yet gotten to the start of the drinking window, the index will be a negative number that will approach zero as the start-consume date approaches.

If you get beyond the window and you still have bottles left, the index will be a positive number greater than the number of bottles and it will keep increasing as time goes on.

In addition to the above, a negative value can also mean you are consumming too fast. The reason for the positive number greater than the number of bottles is to bubble up the old and stale stuff to the top of this list so you consume it before it goes bad (or gets any worse).

There are also some messages later in the DESCRIPTION thread that shed a bit more light on these issues.

Working through the formula (given in the description) with examples of your own wines will also help.

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RE: v 2.3.8 release notes - 8/23/2004 2:52:13 PM

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eric-

i love all the changes you are making. the screens are becoming more useful than i could ever have imagined.

when you now list community average for drink soonest and latest, is this based only on entries marked as personal or anything in the personal window regardless of source?

when i entered cellar, i manually transposed parker values to the personal window. is there a way to now automatically ascribe them to parker or do i have to do than again manually?

is anyone compulsive enough to want to have a field tracking import sources?

Cliff, thanks for the kind words. I am making prety good progress of late on the site.

For a description of the drinkind window hierarchy, check out this thread: http://www.cellartracker.com/forum/tm.asp?m=1282
The community average windows are the average of all of the PERSONAL drinking windows. The drinking windows from professional reviews are private, per-user fields. There is no automatic way for you to move personal windows over to a professional review, you have to do it manually.

When you say a field tracking import sources, do you mean the importer for a wine? It is an interesting dilemma, since we have probably all heard of examples where the same wine from a different importer behaves differently. I am eventually (pretty soon) going to add a per-bottle note field. That might be a good spot to record the importer of your specific bottling.

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